The Tennessean today profiles the first Buddhist Army chaplain, Thomas Dyer of Memphis. Recruiting chaplains from diverse faiths is a challenge, in part because the recruiting system favors Christians and Jews. A potential chaplain must have a master's degree in...
Breckinridge High School (KY) football coach Scott Mooney thinks there is nothing wrong with inviting his team to a church revival and baptism service. After all, attendance – by teenagers no doubt eager to please and win favor with their coach – was...
I've been trying to keep up with news coming out of Spencer, Iowa, where the school board has been considering a "religious liberty" policy for schools. After wisely scrapping an early attempt that included curriculum changes to add a class with a...
Responding to criticism from Rev. Welton Gaddy of Northminster Baptist Church in Monroe, La over the use of taxpayer funds to take numerous trips to churches around the state, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal mostly launched unrelated attacks at Gaddy's Interfaith...
AP's William McCall reports that only three states – Oregon, Pennsylvania and Nebraska – still have laws on the books prohibiting public school teachers from wearing religious attire. A recent Oregon bill expanded religious freedom rights in the...
