A National Public Radio report about results from the first major national study of abstinence-only education.

Read a June 13, 2012, story at Ethics Daily about how the Arizona anti-immigration law affects churches and faith leaders.

Read an Associated Press story, “Doctors denounce abstinence-only education.” It’s posted by MSNBC.

Read a U.S. News and World Report article that asks whether schools are giving students too much – or too little – information about sexual matters. The magazine says California, Pennsylvania and, most recently, Maine have turned down federal money for abstinence-only curricula so they can teach what they believe is best.

Phil and Elise Okrend are co-founders of MixedBlessing, a company in Raleigh, N.C., that produces interfaith cards, music and other holiday items. The Okrends, both Jewish, also are co-authors of the children’s book Blintzes for Blitzen (MixedBlessing, 1996).

See the Supreme Court of the United States blog’s comprehensive coverage of the Arizona v. United States case.

Written by John Danforth (Viking Adult, 2006). Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopalian minister, speaks out against the conflation of political agendas with religious views and the religious right’s focus on wedge issues.

The National Center for Health Statistics posts statistics about teen births.

Read the federal government’s report on preliminary births data for 2006. It says that the birth rate for teens rose in 2006 – the first increase since 1991. This is the full report by the National Center for Health Statistics is also available. The 2006 increase came on the heels of a record low set […]