Plaintiff Michael Newdow is back petitioning the Supreme Court, after suffering yet another legal defeat, this time at the hands of the 9th Circuit, which rejected his challenge of "In God We Trust" as the national motto. With his latest legal petition,...
In a fabulous New Yorker piece titled "The Battle Over the Constitution," Jill Lepore writes: If you haven’t read the Constitution lately, do. Chances are you’ll find that it doesn’t exactly explain itself. … A great deal of what many...
At the Washington Post's On Faith page, Baptist Joint Committee Director, Brent Walker, discusses today's climate of political rhetoric. For those who claim to follow Christ, he notes, our faith demands we "do away with overheated rhetoric." The...
In an interview with Vatican Radio on the anniversary of formal diplomatic relations with the US, Ambassador Miguel Diaz responds to the Pope's call for increased religious freedom and his criticism of the "radical secularism" of the West....
As is appropriate in times of national tragedy like the mass killings in Tucson, Arizona over the weekend, President Obama called on Americans to remember victims and their families in our thoughts and prayers. It's the kind of request we have had to hear from...
