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How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck

Joanna Brooks.

Some are familiar with Glenn Beck’s teary Mormon conversion story, but what many are not aware of is the extent to which Mormonism has given Beck key elements of his on-air personality and messaging—and how it may shape the future of American conservatism.

The Text-Message Fast

Kate Childs Graham.

What to give up for Lent? An Italian bishop thinks it would be good for Catholic youth to give up electronic communication.

Op-Ed: Ramadan and Religious Freedom

Sumbul Ali-Karamali.

How is it that a holiday and fasting month that inspires Muslims to do good things provokes a volatile reaction in a country that prides itself on religious freedom?