Religion and This Week in the White House

Just a thought. This week, President Obama visited the predominantly Muslim nation of Turkey; on Sunday, he will host an Easter celebration at the White House, where tonight, he and his family are participating in a Passover seder, evidently the first ever to be held...

What About the Rest of Us, Indeed?

Why is it apparently so difficult to get a reasonable, thoughtful, non-extremist religious voice on cable news shows? After watching yet another program about religion in politics pitting an atheist against a fundamentalist, beliefnet's Diana Butler Bass wants to...

3rd Circuit Rules Against Religious Headscarf for Police Officers

The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the City of Philadelphia in prohibiting police officers from wearing religious head coverings like Muslim scarfs. Officer Kimberlie Webb argued the policy amounts to religious discrimination. While the court...

Army Chaplain Chief Needs a Holiday Calendar

Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver is a Southern Baptist and the Chief of Chaplains for the U.S. Army. In issuing a proclamation to entire Chaplaincy, calling for a "day of prayer and fasting, he could hardly have picked a less troubling date: April 8, which this year...