In the Boston Review, Nancy MacLean asks what faith-based activism can do for labor and highlights the work of Kim Bobo, founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice and author of Wage Theft in America.

In the San Francisco Chronicle, David Ian Miller interviews Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of a recently released a book titled How God Changes Your Brain.

Michael Paulson comments on Faith in Flux: Changes in Religious Affiliation in the U.S., a new Pew Forum study that explores the reasons why Americans change affiliations.

In the London Review of Books, Jeremy Harding writes about how Islamic finance differs from the Western cult of money.

At Spiritual Politics, Mark Silk points out that Obama's approval ratings have shot up among church attenders.

At a recent TED conference, Barry Schwartz spoke about how to return morality to business, and the moral importance of wisdom.

Nathan Schneider reports in the Boston Globe that secularity has become the new target of religion research, concluding that religions "can be better understood by paying attention to what irreligion looks like."

Rabbi Brant Rosen writes at his blog, Shalom Rav, about his realization that he can no longer celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut, the day of Israel's founding, because it is "inextricably bound up with its dispossession of the indigenous inhabitants of the land."