As the new White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships reflects on what it has accomplished during its first…
Faith, Politics, and Power
American politics
Echoes of American civil religion
It is interesting to revisit civil religion discourse in the context of a new time and its discontents, and the…
“How Christian Were the Founders?”
In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, Russell Shorto takes a long look at the Texas textbook controversy. Shorto comes to this…
Religious groups and political endorsements
Religious leaders have long been involved in political debates, social movements, and policy discussions. In a recent piece in on…
Religion’s reputation
In 2008, roughly 15 percent of Americans told telephone surveyors with the American Religious Identification Survey that they had no…
“American depressions”
At Tikkun Magazine, Harriet Fraad points to five sources that have "devastated the American moral, economic, psychological, and social landscape."
Reporting on faith in the armed forces
In an incisive piece over at Trans/Missions, Meghan McCarty wades into a tangle of facts and frames concerning the recent…
Let the Tea Party begin
Who are the prominent movers and shakers at the Tea Party convention? The Daily Beast reports.
All used up
There is a question that has been haunting me about our times and our collective condition, specifically in regard to…
Year one in White House faith-based office
Despite critiques that the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships has been relatively quiet recently, Joshua DuBois, the…