Today, 49 states and the District of Columbia have anti-bullying laws in place (Montana is the one state without an anti-bullying law). The U.S. Department of Education has issued guidance on how schools can fight bullying and harassment. And many local school districts are moving vigorously to address a serious and widespread problem.

In March 2010, On Faith published a study by Linda LaScola and me, reporting on our project to find and interview, confidentially, non-believing clergy.

The discussion at On Faith, and elsewhere, persuaded  other clergy to volunteer to be interviewed by LaScola, again in strictest confidence,  and as soon as she wraps up a few more interviews we will begin analyzing the transcripts and producing a report of this second phase, which we will publish in due course. Our phase II population includes more than two dozen new participants, a dozen of them currently practicing, with congregations, and drawn from more than a dozen different faiths, including Catholics, Jews, and Mormons.  The existence of non-believing clergy is certainly not a trivial or rare phenomenon.  No two cases are alike, and the reasons and histories make a fascinating multi-threaded tapestry of good people and how they deal with this secret mismatch.

Mr. Scott, a former writer at Life and People magazines, is the author of “Mitt Romney: An Inside Look At The Man and His Politics,” and a recently-released first novel -- “Closing Circles: Trapped in The Everlasting Mormon Moment” --about a writer’s life-long wrestling with Mormonism.

Now that Mitt Romney has become the first Mormon to secure the Republican party’s nomination for president, he faces his toughest electoral challenge of all: how to overcome the undeniable anti-Mormonism among segments of the electorate that are critical to his chances in November.

A recent On Faith column, ‘A Prayer for Abortion?’, isn’t a full accounting of how people of faith consider women’s health issues.

As the chair of the Planned Parenthood Clergy Advisory Board, I work with faith leaders from all different traditions and backgrounds. We strongly believe that women and men are moral agents, able to make their own decisions about their reproductive needs.