70th National Prayer Breakfast Made ‘Cosmetic’ Changes, But Biden Delivered the Same Old Tone-Deaf ‘Unity’ Message
Last week, Americans were forced to endure this year’s National Prayer Breakfast—the 70th since the…
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Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space
C’mon, admit it: you had the Kleenex handy while you watched the swearing-in of the…
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Inevitable Megachurch Abuse of PPP Funds is Coming to Light — Private Jet Included
“The federal government can’t take our money and give it to Joel Osteen or Robert…
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Government Prayer Isn’t Inclusive—Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise
In the run up to Easter and the National Day of Prayer, chaplains and guest chaplains around the nation have sowed religious division and discord as they delivered prayers at state legislatures, and now, federal courts are giving them their stamp of approval.
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If You Don’t Have Peace You Don’t Have Jesus, Preacher Tells Georgia House of Representatives
The past couple of weeks have shown the country that, even though the Supreme Court has said prayers are constitutional, government bodies should stop organizing them. They are divisive, intimidating, coercive—and certainly unbecoming in bodies that represent our increasingly pluralistic communities.
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From Alito Activism to Sloppy Lemons: 3 Takeaways From the Bladensburg Cross Oral Argument
Far from sending a troubling message, as Justice Alito contends, removing unconstitutional crosses maintained by the government on government land would send a clear and simple message: In the United States, the Constitution rules.
Read MoreSCOTUS Likely to Support Memorial Cross; Should We Even Care?
Every court to decide on such a cross has said that it must come down or be moved to private property, but the conservative Supreme Court majority may rule in its favor. Have we simply forgotten how well separation of church and state has worked?
Read MoreJesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial
The army inquires about soliders’ faiths because it doesn’t assume the people dying to defend this nation are Christian. When one views the cross in that light, it seems antithetical to the ideals for which those same soldiers fought.
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What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment
On Monday, the Supreme Court took a dramatically new approach to the First Amendment, though…
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Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”
This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the…
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