Luke Bretherton spoke on both the usefulness and polemic nature of religious-based moral arguments in public discourse during his interview with Rev. Welton Gaddy on the weekly radio show State of Belief.
In reaction to the recent mobbing incident involving a young girl and her family in Pakistan, Senior Fellow Ebrahim Moosa addresses components of this particular case and the polemic nature of blasphemy cases in general in this blog post.
Senior Fellow Barak Richman is fighting against the system by which the Conservative movement places rabbis, calling it a “professional cartel” that controls the job market illegally. His work and the reactions of other parties is featured in this New York Times article.
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the nation’s most prominent Catholic prelate, will deliver the closing blessing to the Republican National Convention in Florida. It is seen as a huge coup for Mitt Romney, the party’s presumptive nominee, but the move has also prompted a sharp debate within the church over the increasingly close ties between leading bishops and the GOP. Read more on Religion News.

