Mainstream media

Belief & Beyond (Melissa Nann Burke, York Daily Record)

• Should we be legislating “Year of the Bible?” (February 8, 2012)
• Obama needs to back down on contraception (February 7, 2012)
• Casey pressures Obama on religious exemption (February 6, 2012)

Belief Blog (Eric Marrapodi, CNN)

• The new Christian abolition movement (February 5, 2012)
• Obama reflects on faith in prayer breakfast speech (February 2, 2012)
• A head on a silver platter – rethinking John the Baptist and Oscar Wilde (February 2, 2012)

BibleBeltBlogger (Frank Lockwood, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

• Mitt Romney flip flops on…….poor people? (February 1, 2012)
• Pentecostal televangelist busted for drunk driving (January 25, 2012)
• What will the pundits be talking about tomorrow? (January 24, 2012)

Blogging Religiously (LoHud.com)

• What was the biggest religion story of ’11? (December 22, 2011)
• A new chapter for Reform Judaism (starring Scarsdale’s Rick Jacobs) (December 14, 2011)
• Wanted: A few good chaplains (December 2, 2011)

Civil Religion (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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• No Unity with Guns: No Peace with Weapons (January 17, 2011)
• Tucson and Port-au-Prince: thinking about words, images, and violence (January 13, 2011)
• Let Us Make a “Global Friends Society” to Solve Global Suffering! (January 11, 2011)

Dallas Morning News

• TEXAS FAITH: Across religious spectrum, voters increasingly identifying themselves as Republican. Why? (February 7, 2012)
• TEXAS FAITH: How do we create a common good today? (January 31, 2012)
• TEXAS FAITH: What do you think about Tebowing? (January 24, 2012)

Faith & Reason (Cathy Lynn Grossman, USATODAY)

• Surveys: Catholics want birth control coverage (February 7, 2012)
• Believers bemoan, cheer Prop 8 ruling (February 7, 2012)
• Faith voices cheer Planned Parenthood cutoff (February 1, 2012)

Faith & Works (Peter Smith, The Courier-Journal)

• RIP, Internet Monk (April 7, 2010)
• Population, procreation & preaching (April 6, 2010)
• Theology for multi-site churches (April 4, 2010)

FaithWorld (Reuters)

• Libyan Sufis mark Prophet’s birthday against pressure from radical Islamists (February 4, 2012)
• Freed from Gaddafi, Libyan Sufis now face violent Islamists (February 1, 2012)
• Syria’s Alawites, called “offshoot of Shi’ism,” are a secretive, unorthodox sect (December 23, 2011)

God Online (James Davis)

• Batter up -- just don't batter the kid (January 29, 2012)
• Story of a controversial saint (January 15, 2012)
• 'Holy war' via mixed martial arts (January 5, 2012)

John L. Allen Jr. (National Catholic Reporter)

• Roman notebook: Yet another Vatican financial scandal (February 8, 2012)
• Vatican abuse summit: $2.2 billion and 100,000 victims in U.S. alone (February 8, 2012)
• Vatican abuse summit: 'Bishops must be held accountable' (February 8, 2012)

Los Angeles Times: Religion news

• Rabbi's 'Kosher Jesus' book is denounced as heresy (February 6, 2012)
• Catholics plan counterattack on new contraception coverage (February 4, 2012)
• Romney's political success is a mixed blessing for Mormon Church (February 3, 2012)

On Faith (Washington Post)

• The RSS feed for this blog has moved (March 14, 2011)
• King's Muslim hearings (March 7, 2011)
• Should religion play a role in the abortion and family planning debate? (March 1, 2011)

Philanthropy Today (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

• Stanford’s $6-Billion in Gifts Sets Record in Higher-Ed Campaigns (February 8, 2012)
• Opinion: Komen Flap Shows Breast-Cancer Charities’ Fundraising Focus (February 8, 2012)
• Virginia Expected to Add ‘Conscience Clause’ in Parent Selection for Adoptions (February 8, 2012)

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

• February 3, 2012: Listen Now (February 3, 2012)
• January 27, 2012: Listen Now (January 27, 2012)
• January 20, 2012: Listen Now (January 20, 2012)

Religion News Blog (Religion News Service)

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• Friday Godbytes, Purity Edition: Purity Rings; Purity Bears; Impure Candidates; Purely Awesome Monks (January 20, 2012)
• Friday’s Religion News Roundup: Newt’s freemarket marriage; Mormons=Christians?; dammed baptisms (January 20, 2012)
• Thursday Godbytes: Megadeth Goes to Seminary; Perry Drops Out; Is “Evangelical” the New “Jewish?” (January 19, 2012)

Scriptorium: A Religion Panorama (Cary McMullen, The Lakeland Ledger)

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• Anti-Islamic Gainesville Church Has a Furniture Store Out Back (August 12, 2010)
• Slain Aid Worker in Afghanistan Had Florida, Methodist Connections (August 9, 2010)
• Chelsea and Marc Go for Interfaith Vows (August 2, 2010)

SOF Observed (Speaking of Faith)

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• Day 28 - Saeed Purcell: “The Last Ten... (September 7, 2010)
• One Voice in a Jewish Spiritual Renaissanceby Krista Tippett,... (September 7, 2010)
• Day 27 - Sakina Al-Amin: “Sharing Qur’an and... (September 6, 2010)

State of Belief

• Gloves off: the truth about the Texas theocratic nexus (January 24, 2012)
• Some good TV coverage of religion in politics (January 17, 2012)
• An Interfaith Holiday Story (December 23, 2011)

The Compass (Meredith Heagney, Columbus Dispatch)

• Woman found shot to death in Marion (February 9, 2012)
• City to monitor homes ordered vacated (February 9, 2012)
• Dawes Arboretum snuffing out burning bush (February 9, 2012)

The New York Times: Religion and Belief news

• The Church That Politics Turned Into a Mosque (February 8, 2012)
• N.Y. Caterer and Ex-Workers Fight Over Kosher Compliance (February 8, 2012)
• Mindful Eating as Way to Fight Bingeing (February 7, 2012)

The Schmooze (Forward.com)

• March of the Living Reception Hosted by Israel Ambassador (February 2, 2012)
• Agnieszka Holland Shines Light on Heroic Poles (January 26, 2012)
• Leon Botstein Wows at YIVO (January 20, 2012)

The Seeker (Manya Brachear, Chicago Tribune)

• The Seeker moves on (February 1, 2012)
• Changes to the Mass are not American, but universal (November 26, 2011)
• Generosity is essence of Thanksgiving (November 25, 2011)