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A spate of recent articles examine the potential overlap between the goals of the Religious Right and those of the Tea Party movement and all three of these pieces add another layer of nuance to [...]

You just can’t make this stuff up.  Today, the Texas State Board of Education voted on a variety of amendments to the state social studies and U.S. government curricula.  Get ready to be appalled [...]

“Did you accomplish anything this week?” That question, posed to me every weekend by one or more people, raced through my head repeatedly as I spent most of Tuesday in a meeting in an office of [...]

But not necessarily for the beaches… According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, Jamaica is adding a new attraction to draw tourists: its Jewish history.  The  island’s [...]

The Washington Post/Newsweek On Faith forum this week asked if U.S. foreign policy should get religion? Rev. Gaddy responds in part by saying: Respecting religion abroad is as critical in U.S. [...]

On Bill Moyers tonight (2/26/2010) an interesting discussion on the debate over same gender marriage that brought together a well known liberal and  conservative. “We’re not advocating any [...]

New York Times contributor Russell Shorto asks – “How Christian Were the Founders?” –  in a recent article about the controversy heating up in Texas over Christianity, [...]

This morning, President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. His remarks highlighted the need for a return to civility in our national dialogue. Civility has been an ongoing theme of [...]

Faith plays a very important role in our country and is a large part of the diversity that makes us so unique, but it often plays a disproportionate role in public debate. People of faith have [...]

January 31, 2010 Des Moines Register: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100131/OPINION01/1310317/1035/arc Guest column by CONNIE RYAN TERRELL-executive director of the Interfaith [...]