For a long time after November 4, I found it hard to believe that Barack Obama had actually been elected…
This is our moment, this is our time
civil religion
A public theologian
Americans have elected the most theologically astute president since Jimmy Carter.
Obama, Wright, and Trinity
The East Coast media establishment---both "conservatives" and "liberals"---continue to ask the same question about Senator Barack Obama: why did he…
The fragility of global solidarity
In my last post, I suggested that the religious communities of the world may have something to contribute to the…
Is a global civil religion possible?
In my essay “Civil Religion in America,” first published in Daedalus in 1967, exactly forty years ago---which, unfortunately, quite a…