The School of Social Science is now accepting applications for 2010-2011 visiting Members, who will do work around the theme of "secularism."

At Religion Dispatches, Franck Schaeffer writes about atheists who borrow religion's morality.

In the Chronicle Review, Ali A. Allawi discusses the two, often conflicting, currents of Islam that have dominated his life--- "the mystical, inner dimension of the faith, and the outer political and social expressions of it"---and concludes by questioning the future of Islamic civilization.

In the Washington Post, Michael Gerson writes about Francis Collins, President Obama's nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health, as a scientist and an evangelical. He points to Collins' assertion that there are two ways of knowing.

In the Times, Bishop Tom Wright accuses the American Episcopal community of knowingly creating a schism with the rest of the Anglican Communion, through their decision to allow the appointment of homosexuals to all levels of power.

Manan Ahmed writes at AltMuslim about the international fear of Pakistan's "Talibanization," which he deems improbable, and the problems facing the modern day nation.

At the Tikkun Daily Blog, Zach Dorfman draws attention to today's prayer service at Tehran University, and stresses its importance.

Diana Butler Bass argues that the recent decision by the Episcopal Church to allow homosexuals to hold high offices as a continuation of the Anglican Church's work to weave local culture into faith.

Kathleen Sprows Cummings responds to Laurie Goodstein's recent article about Vatican investigations into the lives of American nuns, and condemns the Catholic Church for not broadening its ideas about women.