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… Vickie Stangl, of the Great Plains chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, on the secular invocation offered at a recent Wichita City Council meeting. Kathy [...]

Today, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement weighing in on the controversial Cordoba House Islamic community center.  The position they took was, in a word, disappointing.  In response [...]

Discussions about plans to build an Islamic Community Center two blocks away from Ground Zero now include the voice of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who had this to say on the [...]

In an election season that has already seen Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle proclaim her decision to run for office as a divine “calling” and South Carolina Gubernatorial candidate Nikki [...]

Daisy Khan, spokesperson and board member of the Cordoba Initiative, on her organization’s plans to build a Muslim-led cultural center  near the site of the 9-11 attacks – and the vocal [...]

Senate candidate Sharron Angle (who is challenging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada) recently gave an interview to David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network in which she [...]

Last week, North Carolina pastor Ron Baity demanded an apology from his state’s legislators after they dismissed him from his chaplain duties when he prayed in Jesus’ name. Baity was scheduled to [...]

This week on State of Belief with Welton Gaddy: Julie Ingersoll, professor in the Religious Studies program at the University of North Florida and co-author of the Religion Dispatches article Gun [...]

I recently read Jimi Jobin’s articulate and impassioned plea to Pastor H. Wayne Williams to stop his endorsements of political candidates from his pulpit.  Jobin appealed to Williams as a fellow [...]

Last week I attended an event put on by the 20,000 Dialogues Initiative, a group which works to use film to facilitate a dialogue on Islam and the Muslim people. The event included a viewing of [...]