At Muslimah Media Watch, Safiyyah reviews the documentary Veiled Voices, which profiles three female religious leaders---Ghina Hammoud in Lebanon, Dr. Su’ad Saleh in Egypt, and Huda al-Habash in Syria---and their respective communities.

According to a new report, "American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population," current demographic trends indicate that within 20 years the proportion of Americans reporting no religious affiliation could reach 25 percent (via Dan Gilgoff at God & Country).

At the Tikkun Daily Blog, Rabbi Michael Lerner warns the Jewish people against replacing the Golden Calf with the state of Israel.

At Cosmic Variance, physicist Sean Carroll has been liveblogging in great detail about "Philosophy and Cosmology 2009: Characterising Science and Beyond," an interdisciplinary conference featuring leading physicists and philosophers of science.

Dan Gilgoff at God & Country commends President Obama for framing the cause of peace between Israel and Palestine "as a religious one involving 'God's children' and the three world religious that call Israel the Holy Land."

In the Washington Post's On Faith forum, Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn asked several contributors for their take on whether religious charities that receive federal grant money should be allowed to discriminate in hiring.  In response, Susan Jacoby expressed a strong opinion about the unconstitutionality of all federally funded faith-based initiatives.

The Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy is accepting applications for its 2010-2011 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

Nearly two decades after the collapse of the secularist Soviet Union, religion is going to be taught in Russian schools, reports Viktor Malukhin at openDemocracy.