At Funny or Die, John C. Reilly, Jack Black, Margaret Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, and a number of other celebrities sing and dance their way to a political message about religion and Proposition 8.

Among the many questions that arose from the bombings in Mumbai, one remains strangely baffling: why did these terrorists choose, among their high profile attack locations, the small Chabad house run by non-Indian Jews?

Brooke-Sidney Gavins at the SCOOP reports on the "widespread debate as to whether the terrorists should be considered and referred to as followers of Islam" and the surprising fact that "most of the American coverage of the attack is oblivious to what could potentially be a remarkable transformation in the Muslim world."

Issues of church and state come into conflict over the decision to landmark religious buildings. Robin Pogrebin reports in the New York Times.

Saskia Sassen at openDemocracy.

Bruce Ledewitz comments in The Huffington Post.

William McKenzie, Dallas Morning News editorial columnist and a moderator of Texas Faith, discusses how Obama closed the "God gap."

This week, Newsweek featured a cover story by Lisa Miller about reading the Bible in ways more welcoming to alternative sexualities, and the blog Get Religion is out to set the record straight.

"A case for vigilance, not despair," from The Economist.