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Muslim group sues NYC
Last Wednesday, a group of New Jersey Muslims filed a lawsuit against the City of New York, accusing the NYPD…
Anti-Semitic Twitter posts?
Yesterday at The Lede, J. David Goodman reported on a Swedish "social media experiment" gone questionably awry.
Is technology good for religion?
At The Washington Post, Lisa Miller argues that, contrary to the beliefs of religious figures and political pundits, technology is good for religion.
“In God We Teach”
Filmmaker Vic Losick recently released "In God We Teach," a documentary about a public high school student who surreptitiously recorded a lecture given…
Gallup poll on sin
At The Atlantic, Molly Ball reports on Gallup's recent poll on Americans' attitudes about sin. According to the poll, Americans find birth control,…
American attitudes toward religious minorities
At last week's 67th annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Daniel Cox, director of the Public…
Intolerance in Indonesia
Last week at The New York Times, human rights advocate Benedict Rogers wrote an op-ed piece on the state of religious relations in…
Religious conflict in Nigeria?
At GlobalPost, Heather Murdock explains that, for locals, conflict between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria's "Middle Belt" is not entirely about religion.
Dalai Lama to give Templeton money to charity
Last week at BBC News, Robert Pigott reported that the Dalai Lama will give to charity the £1.1 million in Templeton prize money…