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At this point, there doesn’t seem to be much about Mitt Romney’s Mormon background that hasn’t been exhaustively picked over by the media. The same is true to a lesser extent of Rick Perry and M…

Earlier this week, Herman Cain thoroughly mystified bloggers and pundits alike when, during an interview with Piers Morgan of CNN, he said that if a woman became pregnant as a result of rape, the situ…

After a morning of uncertain and contradictory news, Libyan former dictator Moammar Gaddafi was confirmed dead.  According to Abdulrahman Busin, the military liaison to Libya’s transitional governm…

In the aftermath of last night’s GOP debate in Nevada, commentators noted that the audience seemed unusually friendly to Romney.  In one instance the audience loudly expressed their disapproval for…

If you haven’t heard it, give Krista Branch’s “I am America” a listen. According to ABC’s Huma Khan, the song is being heralded as the Tea Party’s “anthem,” and like most good sacred s…

It’s been an arduous month on the campaign trail for presidential hopeful Rick Perry – at least, according to his wife, Anita.  And she has little doubt as to why.  Speaking to voters in South C…

At tonight’s GOP primary debate, one topic seems highly likely to come up: Mitt Romney’s Mormonism.  Jon Huntsman, the other Mormon candidate, is boycotting the debate because Nevada had…

With no sign of the Occupy Wall Street movement losing steam, many have been exploring the role of faith in motivating the protesters’ to take to the streets, as well as the perspective of the relig…

Although we should perhaps count ourselves fortunate that violence no longer breaks out on the Senate floor (a la the infamous Sumner-Brooks caning incident of 1856), a recent editorial for the Christ…

The newly re-ordained Rev. Scott Anderson of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) resigned as pastor of his California church in 1990 after telling his congregants that he was gay.  More than 20 years la…