At Progressive Revival, Diana Butler Bass analyzes President Obama's melding of moral and civic language in last Wednesday's health care speech.

Abby Ellin reports at Well, the New York Times health blog, on the challenges Muslim women face when trying to both uphold standards of modest and get enough exercise.

In the first of a five-part series at 3 Quarks Daily, Namit Arora traces the rise of Islam.

A new British film on Charles Darwin, Creation, reports Anita Singh in the Telegraph, was deemed "too controversial" by U.S. distributors.

After the 60th annual convention of the Religion Newswriters Association, Michael Paulson reflects on the future of religion journalism.

Stanley Fish assesses the contending conceptions of curiosity in Christian and Enlightenment thought.

Manya A. Brachear reports in the Los Angeles Times on one major obstacle standing between monasticism and modern life.

Harvey Cox, best known for his 1965 book The Secular City, celebrated retirement from Harvard Divinity School last week by exercising the ancient privilege enjoyed by his Hollis chair, the oldest endowed chair in American higher education: grazing rights (he also played saxophone at the event).