Associated Baptist PressWASHINGTON (ABP) — Although the case of a lonely cross on federal land in California’s Mojave Desert ultimately could have wide-ranging implications for the separation of church and state, justices on the Supreme Court spent much of...
Associated Baptist PressFORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. — Hundreds of people gathered Sept. 30 in northern Georgia to support cheerleaders at a public high school ordered to stop using religious messages on banners carried on the field during football games.Cheerleaders at...
Religion News ServiceWASHINGTON (RNS) Does an offended observer who drives by a cross-shaped war memorial in the middle of the desert have a right to call for its removal?And can that 7-foot cross stand without violating the constitution's prohibition of...
This week, millions of students all over America will attend "See You at the Pole" prayer meetings in public as well as private schools. The annual event leads students to gather around their school flagpole for prayer on the fourth Wednesday of September....
BJC Executive Director Brent Walker discusses his media habits in a changing world in the latest edition of The Christian Century.In its cover story, the magazine takes a look at the new media landscape and asks experts observers of the religion scene how they...
“Last lion” is how Peter Canellos characterized Sen. Edward Kennedy, in the title of a new book he and a team of Boston Globe reporters wrote earlier this year. The book is aptly named. Indeed, Sen. Kennedy was known as the lion of the Senate for much of...