Richard Kim at The Nation attempts to explain why Prop 8 won.

It seems that some New Yorkers were greeted this morning with a fake ("liberal, happy") front page of The New York Times, reported from the future date of July 4, 2009. The pranksters allegedly responsible seem to think that "Evangelicals caring about refugees---especially Iraqi refugees---is about as likely as a 100% car recall!" but Ted Olsen at Christianity Today's Liveblog wants you to know that the "future" is now, and "church members are indeed giving sacrificially to help refugees."

Katherine Zoepf writes in the New York Times Magazine about a Saudi program intend on deprogramming jihadists who have been detained by the government.

Donald H. Argue and Leonard A. Leo, members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, contend there is a "dubious agenda" behind the Saudis' call for interfaith dialogue.

Not far from Salt Lake City, home to the United States's most successful new religious movement, officials are struggling to find reasons not to allow another movement, the Summum church, to erect a monument in a public park.

In a recent sermon, former evangelical leader Ted Haggard broke his silence about the sex and drug scandal that led to his downfall, and commented on the failed interactions between evangelicals and the secular media.

In his blog at the Guardian, Andrew Brown comments on a New Yorker article about the drug war in Mexico that touches on a cult that prays to Death.

From The Economist, a report on setting limits on Islamic extremism in Indonesia since the 2002 Bali bombings.

In a recent post at The Immanent Frame, Jason Bivins wondered in closing whether our present moment might become what Robert Orsi has called an “abundant event,” “characterized by aspects of the human imagination that cannot be completely accounted for by social and cultural codes.” Randall J. Stephens reports on a recent forum on "abundant history" in Historically Speaking, and has posted Robert Orsi’s lead essay and Jane Shaw’s response here.