Sarah Sayeed and Matthew Weiner write about the implications of a recent court case in Toronto, in which a Muslim woman was ordered to remove her face veil while giving testimony in a sexual assault trial:

At Christianity Today, Sarah Pulliam reports that some prominent Christian conservatives not only dislike being associated with the "Religious Right" but also question the conceptual legitimacy of the term and the group that it supposedly denotes.

In the March issue of The Atlantic, Paul Elie praises Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, as the only prominent Christian leader who has managed "to have it both ways: affirming traditional Christian notions of marriage and family, love and fidelity, and adapting them to the experiences of gay believers."

In a conversation with Mary-Lea Cox of the Social Science Research Council, French scholar and Middle East expert Gilles Kepel describes the challenges President Obama faces in the Middle East.

In New Scientist, Michael Brooks investigates our natural inclination toward religious belief.

Nathaniel Popper writes in the Wall Street Journal about the incredible response and emotional outpouring over the raid of the kosher Agriprocessors plant.

At Religion Dispatches Rachel Wagner writes about how online identity can inform real world religious experience.

Michael Paulson writes in the Boston Globe about the recent introduction of crucifixes to every classroom at Boston College.

Religion Dispatches asks ten questions of Bruce Ledewitz, a law scholar and author of the forthcoming Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice.