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Cathy Grossman and Jack Gillum at USA Today have crunched the numbers and found that gay marriage is getting most traction in states where The Nones (i.e. people who have no religious affiliation) are strongest.

I’m occasionally described as an “entrepreneurial risk taker” because I left my fancy job in journalism to start Beliefnet in 1999. Though I love the sound of it, I’ve never felt it was really accurate. The reason: I always knew that if I crashed and burned, I would be fine. My parents have enough saved…

Guest post by Mark Silk, who is filling in for Steven Waldman. In his order reversing the Bush administration’s restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research earlier this month, President Obama received some undeserved criticism for minimizing the role of moral values in shaping science policy. Yes he did, in his signing statement, insist…

Guest post by Mark Silk, who is filling in for Steven Waldman. When the pope, ah, misspeaks, the Vatican press office will adjust his remarks to express what it was that he really “said”–a move facilitated by the fact that it’s often possible to claim that the translation from whatever language he happens to be…

For weekend blogging by Mark Silk visit his blog, Spiritual Politics. He will continue filling in for Steven Waldman on Monday, March 23. Guest post by Mark Silk. Gay marriage is on the march in New England. On Friday, Vermont’s state senate judiciary committee unanimously approved a bill to permit same-sex couples to wed. If…

Guest post by Mark Silk, who is filling in for Steven Waldman. Efforts on the part of the Obama administration and its allies to create some kind of common ground on abortion continue to stumble along. On Monday, evangelical intellectual David Gushee took to the pages of USA Today to declare his disappointment with the…

Guest post by Mark Silk, who is filling in for Steven Waldman. Dan Gilgoff, who used to run the God-o-Meter hereabouts and now blogs at God and Country for U.S. News, reported last month that President Obama, in a departure from past presidential practice, was opening his town hall-type meetings around the country with, as…

Guest post by Mark Silk, who is filling in for Steven Waldman. Steve has noted that Rick Warren is not on board with Pope Benedict’s recent statement to the effect that AIDS “is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates…

I’m on vacation from March 19-24. I’m very fortunate to have Mark Silk as guest host. A former religion reporter, Mark has in recent years run the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life at Trinity College — and most recently launched a terrific blog called Spiritual Politics. By the way,…

The debate over Guantanamo usually slides immediately into the moral dilemma of whether it’s permissible to abuse or “torture terrorists.” It’s an important debate but it obscures a basic flaw: many of them weren’t terrorists. The moral contours become a bit different when the question becomes “Is it ok to torture people who aren’t terrorists?”…
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