Tag: Secular

  • At the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore, executive director Bob Gehman says, “If we were not able to discriminate in our hiring practices based on our faith and religion, that would change us.” More

    August 12, 2011

  • As protests and rebellion break out across the Arab world, R & E looks back at the insights of scholars and experts on the compatibility of democratic values and Islam. More

    February 3, 2011

  • The fight is not over whether faith groups are subject to the law, says the president of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, “because they are subject to whatever the law is, which in many cases makes this exception for them. The question is should this exception be allowed to continue?” More

    May 28, 2010

  • “I don’t see any special right in the Constitution or elsewhere that allows a church to take money and discriminate,” says the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. More

    May 28, 2010

  •   FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: Jakarta looks like any other modern Asian capital, but here, alongside the glittering office towers, you’ll also find imposing houses of worship. At the Istiqlal mosque recently, about 10,000 worshipers gathered for Friday noon … More

    September 11, 2009

  • KIRI OZTURK (reading to her children from a children’s book): Allah made camels with great big humps. Allah made elephants with long, slinky trunks. KIM LAWTON: In a suburb of Istanbul, Kiri and Orhan Ozturk are teaching their kids about … More

    April 6, 2009

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