Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has urged the President to not attend the National Prayer Breakfast, reports…
Obama urged to skip National Prayer Breakfast
American politics
Mayor of southern California city wants to make town a “Christian Community”
In Lancaster, CA, many argue that Mayor R. Rex Parris is attempting to make the town a "Christian" community by…
The strange case of Texas’s textbooks
At Washington Monthly, Mariah Blake comments on the ongoing controversy over Texas's once-in-a-decade revision of its textbook standards. With standards for…
Presidents as saviors
At The Washington Post's On Faith page, Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham ask a series of respondents whether the American…
Civil religion and beyond
Civil religion, on one hand, links the US to the biblical tradition; on the other hand, the moral and political…
The social body of belief
American civil religion has taken several forms. One type is preoccupied with national cohesion, claiming that the bonds by which…
The spaces of American civil religion
Reviewing Kirk Savage's Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape for Religion Dispatches,…
Let’s talk about faith
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that "the debate that Brit Hume kicked off a week ago is still…
A Neo-Weberian theory of American civil religion
The American civil religion, Robert Bellah argued, was derived from two sources, one religious and the other secular: the covenant…
An untapped constituency
In his 2008 documentary (some might prefer to call it a mockumentary) Religulous, comedian and satirist Bill Maher wonders aloud…