Focus on the Family targets Iowa voters. Young professionals leave China for greater religious freedom. James Bond gets Catholic and Jewish nods.

As Hurricane Sandy retreats, many stop to ponder the meaning of such devastation. What is a religious response? Proof of God’s judgment? Or God’s absence? Sandy has cast a pall over Halloween this year, in some places. Is the Reformation over? Or reigniting? The Vatican floats the idea of setting up a special Lutheran church inside the Roman Catholic Church.

Stephen Prothero's take on God and the storm. Muslim support for Obama is strong but weaker. And the Catholic Church in Poland takes a stand against Halloween.

Why Americans lie to pollsters about going to church. President Obama endorses same-sex marriage in Washington and Maine. Catholic vote too close to call. The rainbow sign.

God's will and the hurricane, genetic engineering and ethics, Israel and Jewish pluralism, and Alan Jacobs leaves Wheaton...

Faith ahead of politics? Partisanship above piety? The elections are less than two weeks away. Friday marks Eid-al-Adha. The theology of rape.

Would the "Mormon mafia" try to revive torture? Do porn stars really believe in God or just like to shout his name a lot? And did the American who hired the pope's butler just get promoted, demoted, or both? All that and more in today's Religion News Roundup.

Tim Tebow tries for a trademark. Mormon mission applications skyrocket after the LDS Church lowers age requirements. And Election Day Communion seeks to heal the rifts between the faithful of all political persuasions.

Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Native American saint. Foreign policy takes center stage in presidential debate. The Gender Gap. 

BERKELEY, Calif. (RNS) Without Gerald Heard, the "godfather of New Age," some of the major spiritual developments of 20th-century America might never have happened. And at least one skeptical California newspaperman might never have sobered up. By Kimberly Winston.

Cardinal Dolan keeps Mitt Romney and President Obama from having a food fight, Rachel Held Evans doesn't see what all the fuss is about, and another nail in the DOMA coffin. Read all about it in today's Religion News Roundup.

Christian culture warrior Dinesh D'Souza (“2016” documentarian, president of The King’s College) tells Christianity Today that the reports about his marital troubles – getting engaged while not yet divorced, e.g. – are a “vendetta.”

Billy Graham scrubs Mormon "cult" reference from website. Nuns on the Bus meet demonstators. Dinesh D'Souza's under investigation.

(RNS) Even now, a week after surgery, I find my mind drifting off. I haven't always taken enough time to heal. I moved on too soon, when my head, in effect, was still woozy. So this time I am taking time. No rushing back to work, no making important decisions, no feeling impatient to have my wits fully about me. By Tom Ehrich.

Downton Abbey tackles anti-Catholicism. A coalition of evangelicals pushes for access to birth control. And here's what happens in the American National Catholic Church.