BELIEF BLOG

Two very different inaugural prayers

How the two preachers prayed during the inauguration

HBO cuts out Bishop Robinson

Why did HBO cut out Sunday's invocation by a gay bishop?

Who's who at the National Prayer Service

Obama's transition team and religious groups

Here's a list of religious groups the transition team has - and hasn't - met with.

The president and the gay bishop

Lots of reaction is coming in about Obama's choice of a gay Episcopal bishop for an inaugural prayer

Neuhaus redux

Read the difference between what we - and our competition across town - have to say about this spiritual icon.

Mormons and gay marriage

Sunstone magazine explains the real reasons behind the Mormon distaste for same-sex "marriage."

Another atheist talks up God

Matthew Parris, an atheist, tells the Times of London why Christianity is good for Africa.

Lutheran bishops head for Middle East

More than 40 bishops from the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America and Canada head for Israel Jan. 6 to do what they can for peace in the region.

Narnia movie put on ice

Disney just pulled out of making "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," the third of a seven-part series.

Signing in Seattle

Your humble blogger will be on the radio and signing her book Monday in the Emerald City.

God and Congress

The Pew Forum sets out the faith leanings of the incoming 111th Congress.

The year's best religion stories

President-elect Obama's tangle with his former pastor is the No. 1 story

Spread holiday cheer; Host a student

There are some 624,000 international students in the United States, many of whom have no place to spend the holidays. A Charlottesville group is acting as a clearinghouse for those wishing to invite in a student for Christmas dinner who would otherwise be marooned in an empty dorm.

Defending the Mormons

The Becket Fund runs an ad signed by evangelical Protestants (and one Orthodox Jew) defending Mormon participation in the fight to pass California's Proposition 8.