Last fall, I taped a segment for the NPR program On the Media about how reporters cover religion on the campaign trail. For more than an hour, host Bob Garfield [...]
To read the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies’ decennial U.S. Religious Congregations & Membership Study 2010, go here or here.
To read more about Scott Thumma’s work at Hartford Institute for Religion Research, go here.
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote a book (you can read about and/or order it here), and it’s been getting a lot of attention, but the review people are handing around as, well, gospel, is Mark Silk’s, found here, at Religion [...]
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate (and frontrunner) Mitt Romney declined to answer a pointed question about his Mormon faith. From the Associated Press account:
A Ron Paul supporter, 28-year-old Bret Hatch, asked Romney whether he agreed with a passage from the Book of Mormon that describes a cursing of people with [...]
Last week, the Freedom From Religion Foundation ran a full-page ad in the New York Times suggesting Catholics considering leaving their church. You can read more here.
Now, the Times is being criticized for postponing running a similar ad from anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller (more on her here). [...]
In a statement released yesterday, the administrative committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said, in part, that they would keep their attenton on:
the now-finalized rule of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would force virtually all private health plans nationwide to provide coverage of [...]
See, that’s my problem, Senator. Your religion wants to tell me what to do and what to think. It wants to run my life, even though I don’t believe in the stories and tenets of that religion. You know the Big Government that all you guys rail against, the one that is sapping our precious freedoms? [...]
