Last Friday, the Texas Board of Education ratified---with a seven-vote margin---a series of controversial new textbook standards, reports TPM's Justin…
Texas Board of Ed. ratifies new textbook standards
American politics
Government, civil society, and religious freedom
Should the U.S. government employ American civil society to engage religious communities overseas in promotion of a “religious freedom agenda”?…
Thomas Farr on Obama’s religious freedom agenda
At Georgetown/On Faith, Thomas Farr questions the commitment of the Obama administration, and particularly the State Department, to the promotion…
Focus on the Family preparing to shift gears?
Since stepping down as chairman of Focus on the Family last February, James Dobson's relationship with the advocacy group and…
A new twist in the Texas textbook case
Justin Elliot of Talking Points Memo reports that Don McLeroy, the "top conservative activist on the powerful Texas Board of…
Glenn Beck now telling you what church to attend
Glenn Beck has now decided to tell you what church to go to. In a recent episode, reports Politics Daily,…
Words for a faithful world
What fascinates me most about these religious freedom conversations---within the U.S. and between America and the world---are the words we…
Religion and the civic imagination
Since the publication of Robert Bellah’s 1967 article “Civil Religion in America,” discussions of the topic have tended to devolve…
The wages of engagement
“Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy” is an ambitious, thoughtful, and thought-provoking report that makes…
Beware the unstated assumptions
I applaud the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ call for the U.S. government to recognize the pivotal role of religion…