A new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute finds that, while a majority of Americans (56 percent) support the…
Poll finds mixed support for hearings on Muslim radicalization
American politics
Will Oprah Winfrey save us all?
Oprah Winfrey is the single most powerful woman in media. She presides over a multi-billion dollar empire as both mogul…
Mosques in America
In a CNN op-ed, Karam Dana and Matt A. Barreto, SSRC Academia in the Public Sphere grantees and co-principal investigators…
Supreme Court decides in favor of Westboro Baptist Church
While acknowledging their negative effects on public political discourse, the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled, in an…
The cross and the cheeseheads
Where do Christians stand with regard to Wisconsin's euphemistically named "budget repair bill"? That's a question stirring up some debate…
Religion in Wisconsin
In an article at Religion Dispatches, Kim Bobo, the founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, describes the religious…
Religious statements by government officials
Recently, the newly-elected governor of Alabama made headlines by making a public statement in a church following his inauguration, in…
Representing the unrepresented
The religiously “unaffiliated”---atheists, agnostics, nonconformists, the unchurched and the uncertain---are underrepresented in Congress, notes Richard Blow today in The New…
An alternate reading of David Wojnarowicz’s ant-covered Christ
David Wojnarowicz's "Fire in My Belly" is an expression not of hostility to the Christian faith but of a deep,…
Looking for God in the 2010 midterms
The 2010 elections changed a lot about the makeup of Congress, but did they change much about American secularism? A…