The Guttmacher Institute offers this Feb. 1, 2014, summary of state policies on emergency contraception, including a chart that shows which states allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense it. See also the institute’s February 2014 explanation of state policies on insurance coverage of contraceptives.

According to a June 13, 2012, fact sheet by the Public Religion Research Institute, Americans are split pretty evenly on the question of whether religious liberty is under attack in America. Interesting dichotomies were reported for Catholics, though, with just 44 percent telling PRRI that religious freedoms are being threatened — but 53 percent of […]

This Nov. 1, 2013, fact sheet by the Public Religion Research Institute provides data from its research on Americans’ views on gay and lesbian issues, including whether such matters should be decided at the state or federal level.

Read a Sept. 18, 2013, column by Jonathan Merritt on whether Rick Warren might wade into the gun control debate in light of his son’s suicide.

Read a June 10, 2009, Religion News Service story, “Southern Baptists look for cures to stagnation.”

Read an Aug. 23, 2012, column in The Wall Street Journal about the debt problem for seminary students and what congregations and schools can do differently to address it. Russell D. Moore, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is the author.

Read an Oct. 17, 2011, column at Patheos.com that discusses the effects of culture-shifts on seminaries.

Read another Oct. 17, 2011, column at Patheos that talks about how seminary education can be improved.