In America: The National Catholic Weekly, Michael Sean Winters challenges the "conventional wisdom about the 2008 election," arguing that "The economy did not displace moral issues: The economy is a moral issue."

Jen'nan Ghazal Read in the Fall 2008 issue of Contexts.

The Christian Post ran an article by Rachael Zoll about religious superstitions in baseball.

Spiegel reports on the state of religion in the German city of Wittenberg, 500 years after Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation there.

In the latest issue of Public Culture, Stathis Gourgouris writes...

Halloween, a holiday of pagan and Christian roots, is now the second most popular holiday in the United States (just behind the August to December Christmas season). American consumers are projected to spend $5.77 billion this year alone. In honor of this day, we have put together a round up of all things spookily secular and eerily religious below.

Max Farrar writes about the Turkish (though now living in Pennsylvania) intellectual Fethullah Gülen and his well-funded international movement.

The Los Angeles Times ran an article about a group that prays professionally, hoping for an end to gay marriage in California.

Margaret Talbot writes in the New Yorker about the gulf between attitudes towards sex and sexual behavior in evangelical teens.