Photographer Captures Muslims’ Self-portraits

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Artist Todd Drake has aimed his camera lens at truck drivers, Alzheimer’s patients and employees of an exotic nightclub. But he’s trying to build interfaith bridges by asking Muslims to turn the lens on themselves. Drake’s traveling exhibit, “Muslim...

First Amendment’s Free Exercise at Heart of Abuse Cases

(RNS) Jeremiah Scott was 11 when the abuse and molestation began in 1990 at the hands of an elder in his Mormon church in Portland, Ore. After the man died in 1995, Scott’s mother sued the church in 1998 for putting her son at risk. His mother said when she reported...