No sooner had Mitt Romney lost the presidential election than various pundits and journalists began to declare that the "Mormon moment" was over. Certainly, Romney's candidacies in 2008 and 2012 brought about increased visibility and often scrutiny for Mormonism. Since its founding less than two hundred years ago,...

Republicans meeting in Tampa this week and Americans watching the GOP convention at home heard a lot about something the Romney campaign hasn't wanted to talk about before: Mitt Romney's Mormon faith. On Thursday night, a series of Romney's fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

In a field with Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann as options, perhaps one of the bigger surprises of Tuesday's Iowa caucus was the support of evangelical voters for the Catholic Rick Santorum. Representing 57% of caucus-goers (down three percent from four years ago), evangelical Iowans gave Santorum 32%...

On the day before Thanksgiving, Mitt Romney received some news from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life for which he must be truly thankful. In a survey recently completed by Pew, researchers found that while Romney's Mormon faith continues to dog him among Republican...

In Florida, the state's Senate Education Committee recently forwarded a bill on school prayer to state lawmakers for consideration. Proposed by Democratic Sen. Gary Siplin of Orlando, the bill would allow student-led prayers at school events like graduation, dances and football games. Since the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer and...

As the temperatures start to dip and the days grow shorter, most people begin to think of the end of the year and all they hope to accomplish before Jan. 1. But for those of us in academia, the cooler wind gusts and the lengthening shadows signal the start of...

With the announcement earlier this month that he would again seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012, Mitt Romney launched his expected return to the presidential race. Yet even before Romney could officially declare his candidacy, questions about how his Mormon faith would affect his chances had already reemerged....

In the recent efforts to understand something about the seemingly incomprehensible Tea Partiers, a lot has been made about the upsurge in sales of Ayn Rand's capitalist manifesto, Atlas Shrugged. But there's another book making the rounds among Tea Partiers, especially of the religious bent, this year that also deserves...