In the latest issue of Culture (pdf, p. 12), Christopher McKnight Nichols takes an "historical approach" to accounting for the surging numbers of Americans professing "no religion."

In the Los Angeles Times, Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel Joseph Infranco and UC Irvine School of Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky debate what is actually at stake in the upcoming Supreme Court case Salazar v. Buono, which concerns the erection of a monumental Christian cross on California's Mojave National Preserve.

David Waters at On Faith reports on one of the Christian Right's more creative---and bizarre---gambits to date: the "Adopt a Liberal" campaign.

At the Guardian's Comment is free page, Angelia Wilson looks at the reasoning behind Christian conservatives' support for healthcare co-operatives.

Last month the John Templeton Foundation convened Arnold Eisen, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Terry Eagleton, author of Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, to discuss the "new atheism," the persistence of religious belief in the wake of modernity, and the possibility of a radical politics rooted in Christian faith. You can now watch the entire discussion on the Templeton Foundation's YouTube channel.

Dan Gilgoff at God & Country had an incisive post yesterday considering the Evangelical movement as a counter-cultural phenomenon. Its self-image as a marginalized group and perennial underdog doubtless serves to galvanize the movement---but does it hold water? The line between inside and outside, hegemonic and subaltern, has become quite blurry indeed.