Geoffrey R. Stone writes on the separation of church and state in The Huffington Post.

Tom Heneghan at FaithWorld reports.

Echoing the atheist bus campaign in England, the American Humanist Association is launching a series of wonderfully grammatically correct ads that read, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake." These ads have been run in the New York Times and Washington Post, and will soon find their way into Washington DC Metro buses. The AHA's press release tells us...

Presbyterian pastor Henry G. Brinton believes the secular environmental movement must reach out to religious groups if the planet is to be saved.

Jenny White of Kamil Pasha (and of The Immanent Frame) links to "an insightful and provocative article" by Kerem Oktem in The New Humanist.

Jessie Daniels at Racism Review argues that "advocates for gay marriage need to work on their religious intolerance."

Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a German convert to Islam and professor of Islamic theology at Münster University, has put forward a theory that the prophet Muhammad never existed, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Many voices (some of which we have mentioned) have commented on the Washington, D.C. case in which the parents of a brain-dead 12 year old boy are fighting to keep him on life support, citing their Orthodox Jewish belief that a beating heart means the boy is alive. The Washington Post opened a forum for people to ask questions of Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman, an expert of Jewish medical ethics.

Andrew Sullivan responds to a post by Rod Dreher.

The website Muslim Voices has a series of podcasts about Islam, and recently posted an interview with Professor Heather Akou, a practicing Muslim who wears a headcovering and an expert in African and Muslim dress. Like the exchange between Rana and Robin Yassin-Kassab, Akou brings a different perspective of what veiling can mean.