Robert Wright argues that globalization can be good for the three Abrahamic religions and, ultimately, the entire world.

Dan Ephron tells the story of Terry Holdbrooks, a Guantánamo guard who converted to Islam after six months on the job.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair writes in On Faith about religion and the modern world.

In Slate, Christopher Hitchens writes about the extreme views of some military rabbis in Israel, and how this is not a new phenomenon.

Robin Wright reports on a new generation of Muslim activism.

At Georgetown/On Faith, Thomas J. Reese weighs in on the gathering controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's invitation to serve as the commencement speaker for Notre Dame University.

The Guardian has printed the full text of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' recent Ebor lecture, in which he argues that "God will not step in to save us from our own folly, greed and neglect" of the world. Andrew Brown responds to Williams, arguing, "If God does not exist, we must urgently invent one."

A new study reports that religious people are more likely to fight death with extreme medical measures; Deseret News and the Economist draw rather different conclusions from it.