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2009 911 Unity Walk: On an overcast day the mood was significantly brightened by the annual 911 Unity walk in Washington, DC on October 18. The goal of this annual walk is reminiscent of [...]

Host Welton Gaddy is featured once again in the Washington Post blog On Faith. This week’s question is about hate crimes. The site’s editors ask panelists whether it is necessary for [...]

As much as we regret when other radio programs beat us to the punch on great religion and culture stories, we have to give credit where credit is due and local New York NPR show host Brian Lehrer [...]

News outlets like JTA, The Daily Beast and Huffington Post  have all picked up on a letter that two South Carolina chairman – Edwin Merwin and James Ulmer – recently published in a [...]

Earlier we posted about Daniel Burke’s Religion News Service article on the new “New Atheists”, and now NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty adds another perspective to this [...]

Daniel Burke of Religion News Service just released an interesting article about what he calls Atheism 3.0 or the new “New Atheists”.   Although best-selling writers like Christopher [...]

News out of California late yesterday had us dusting off an intersection award for the state’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Religion News Service reports that Schwarzenegger vetoed a [...]

Steven Colbert had a great riff Wednesday night on the recent Supreme Court case about the Mojave Cross.  The case involves a large white cross that was erected on federal land as a memorial to [...]

President Obama became the first U-S president to take part in a celebration of the Hindu festival Diwali.  The White House event was an acknowledgement of the minority faith and a chance for the [...]

An editorial published in yesterday’s Times correctly points out President Obama’s lack of action on the issue of religious discrimination and the faith-based initiative. Obama has [...]