Rev. Franklin Graham may not have had all the bunting and military brass of an official Pentagon event backing him, but he managed to pray today anyway, and in what I consider a more suitable venue: impromptu on the sidewalk. There, any American of any faith can pray,...
Calling it "misguided" and "unnecessary", the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty criticized the controversial National Day of Prayer in a strongly worded statement: K. Hollyn Hollman, general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for...
Americans United and the ACLU have filed a lawsuit over a Connecticut school district's use of a church for graduation ceremonies. One of their primary arguments is that there are other capable non-religious sites that could be used instead. As if on cue, the...
Via Religion Clause, the City Council prayer policy of Lancaster, California has been challenged in a new lawsuit. Just last month, the town's residents voted to allow sectarian prayers to continue in a ballot referendum. A majority vote, however, does not allow...
Just finished delivering the BJC-sponsored Shurden Lectures at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Marty writes of how he was reminded that the strongest supporters of church-state separation can and should be people of faith. [M]any who are nervous...
In a NYTimes column, author and scholar Stanley Fish – who's written books about interpreting everything from the First Amendment to Milton – complains about the reasoning in Establishment Clause decisions like the Mojave Cross opinion just released...
