The fact that the Obamas are still looking for a church isn't a bad thing, according to Andrew Santella.  In fact, it is just part of the new American pastime of church shopping.

The British government is having trouble fostering a functional relationship with Muslims in England, citing a dissolution of relations with prominent Muslim leaders in August of 2006, the Economist reports.

In a recently translated piece at The Utopian, Jürgen Habermas responds to Paolo Flores d'Arcais's "Eleven Theses Against Habermas."

Fareed Zakaria thinks we must stop treating all Islamists like potential terrorists and start trying to understand the radicalism's foundation and context.

In Slate, Christopher Hitchens critiques a U.N. resolution intended to combat the defamation of religion, which he says "seeks to extend protection not to humans but to opinions and to ideas, granting only the latter immunity from being 'offended.'"

Paul Vitello writes in the New York Times about the Latino response to the appointment of Timothy M. Dolan as Archbishop of New York.

Judith Levine believes the recession is giving us excuses for "moral flagellation" and argues at Salon that thrift is the new abstinence.

When Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop in January 2009, it sparked a very public dispute. Catholic World News editor Philip F. Lawlor examines the partial truths that were reported and, explaining public relations failures of the Vatican following the controversy, makes suggestions for improvement.

At Politico, Erika Wood calls the restoration of voting rights to ex-felons an issue that "resonate[s] in terms of this country’s founding principles and that form[s] a shared foundation for those who are looking for real solutions to pervasive social problems."

The recent murder of Aasiya Zubair Hassan has brought a great deal of media attention to domestic violence within American Muslim communities. Matthew Weiner writes in the Huffington Post about the ways Muslim religious leaders are combating domestic violence.