1. “Catholic” countries that openly flout Vatican policy.

2. Judaism and Real Estate.

3. Five-Point Calvinism Inside the Southern Baptist Convention.

4. Identity Crisis Within a Queer-Positive Christian Denomination.

5. Latino Catholics Distinctly More Gay-Friendly Than Latino Evangelicals.

6. Upside-Down Ideas about Religious Liberty.

7. Special Providence on Life Support?

8. The Council of Elders and Occupy.

9. We Can’t Just Call it Nihilism?

10. The Faith of the “Post-Soul” Generation.

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1) The Muslim Spring

2) The Dalai Lama Steps Down

3) Mormons in Politics

4) The Muslims Are Coming, The Muslims Are Coming

5) The End of the World

6) Presbyterians Acknowledge Gays and Lesbians Can Be Ministers

7) The Struggle for the Soul of Yoga

8) A Jewish American-Israeli Rift?

9) Occupy Faith

10) The New Mass

11) Interfaith Secularists

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