Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we…
Good troublemakers
Martin Luther King Jr.
Race and Secularism in America
On September 13, 2016, Clemson University’s head football coach Dabo Swinney was asked what he would do if one of…
A new Great Awakening
Glenn Beck's track record of keeping promises may not be pristine (in fact, Pulitzer Prize-winning politifact.com has often given his…
Civil religion, prophecy and Obama
For some scholars, "religion" gives the social cohesion and moral purpose without which a merely self-interested and fragmenting liberalism could…
Obama’s service problem
In what has become something of an American tradition, President Barack Obama asked us to rediscover a "spirit of service"…
Obama as public theologian: Old wine in new wineskins
Although comparisons between Obama and Lincoln are surely overstated---our current president has not yet shown either the rhetorical or intellectual…