Jacqui Salmon and Michelle Boorstein over at The Washington Post have launched their new God & Government blog focusing on the intersection of, well, God and government. It’s part of WaPo’s ever-expanding OnFaith blog.

Post religion editor Dan LeDuc explains:

“What is the relationship between God and government? President Obama’s new faith-based effort is a crucible for debate on that question: Which religious groups should get government dollars and what rules should their social programs have to follow? But that’s only one window on the passionate discussions going on around the nation about the role of religion in public life. Public money for cutting-edge reproductive technologies, whether religious businesspeople should be required to accommodate same-sex couples, abortion rights and restrictions and Christian evangelists in the military are among the contentious issues unfolding in our pluralistic nation.

“This blog covers the news about these issues in Washington and in the rest of the country, not only in the halls of government and not only from pulpit, but across the lunch table and over the water cooler.”

We’ll provide a link to G&G off the RNS blog.