Carroll County, Maryland, a mostly white, middle-to-lower class area northeast of Baltimore, has been getting a notable volume of media coverage over the past year. This rural wonderland of pickup trucks, country music, and cookie-cutter... Read More

I was nine when my mom beamed at my fifth-grade teacher and told him he was the best Christian she'd ever known. Except, of course, that he wasn't; Mr. Goldstein was Jewish. Though she'd die... Read More

With a population of about 96,000, the town of Greece, New York, is hardly the sort of place one would expect to make national news. But this suburb outside of Rochester did in May, when... Read More

I was raised as a fundamentalist Christian. When I left those beliefs behind I looked for substitute religions, each time choosing one less dogmatic and more freethinking than the last. It never occurred to me... Read More

Opportunities for local activism are easy to find these days, and while our plates are already brimming with important work that keeps our organizations thriving, it is rare when an opportunity comes along that requires... Read More

Many people would agree that young minds are impressionable. And while gruesome images of dead human fetuses are likely to upset anyone forced to look at them, the religious right is explicitly using these images... Read More

The Fourth of July is a holiday all Americans can appreciate, regardless of religious loyalty. It is a day we remember our independence from the grips of the monarch-led British Empire. Although the holiday was... Read More