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President Obama delivered a moving eulogy last night for the victims, families and survivors of the Tucson assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Somewhat surprisingly, given presidential precedent and Obama’s own efforts lately to reassert his Christian bona fides, the 33-minute address was light on scriptural references, focusing more on memorializing the dead, comforting the…

I had to bang out a story for Religion News Service this morning about the fallout over Sarah Palin’s use of the loaded term “blood libel” in her Facebook response to critics who have made a connection between her kind of aggressive campaign rhetoric and the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday. Sarah…

It was a year ago today that a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, and by all accounts, the country is still struggling to emerge from the rubble. (Puts our “snowpocalypse” into perspective, doesn’t it?) Here are some faith-related links on the prayers and progress — or lack thereof — so far: Haiti earthquake anniversary (Religion & Ethics…

Here are some faith-related links about the Arizona shooting that claimed the lives of six people — including 63-year-old U.S. District Judge John Roll and 9-year-old Christina Green (in an oddly awful bookend, she had been born on 9/11) — and has left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life: In Tuscon’s Wake, ‘We Pray to…
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