Nadim Audi writes in the New York Times about the Egyptian government's decision to slaughter herds of pigs as a precaution against swine flu, and how many Egyptian Christians see this as a form discrimination.

New poll data analysis from Pew suggests that religious Americans are more likely than non-religious Americans to believe that torture can be justified.

Tom Jacobs explains how ethicist Jonathan Haidt's framework of five moral realms applies differently to liberals and conservatives.

The May edition of the Journal of Religious Ethics features a focus on Nicholas Wolterstorff and his book, Justice: Rights and Wrongs, with pieces written by Paul Weithman, Harold Attridge, Oliver O'Donovan, Richard Bernstein, and Nicholas Wolterstorff himself.

At Religion Dispatches, Anthony B. Pinn writes about Isaac I. Ovid, an ex-minister and son of the founder of his church, who lost between $9 and $12 million donated by congregants to the Local Christian Assembly Church in Queens, New York.  Pinn question the congregants' willful ignorance of the potential for unethical behavior by Ovid, and, indeed, ministers in general.

At AltMuslim, Shahed Amanullah inteviews Reza Aslan about his new book, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror.  In addition to his main thesis about cosmic war, he talks about definitions of jihad and how the United States interacts with Islam and Islamism.

In First Things, evangelical political scientist Hunter Baker reflects on the failure of conservative Protestants to incorporate the excesses of business into their broader cultural critique.