separation of church and state

Public Religion Research Institute asks the right question.

Santorum not alone among Catholics in antipathy to JFK’s speech.

The balance between the right to free exercise of religion and the right of employees to equal protection under the law is not easy to strike, and the Hosanna-Tabor decision doesn’t appear to strike it at all.

When I moved to New York City just over a year ago, I started going to church. More precisely, I started going to the churches—dozens of them—that were located in New York City’s public schools. I attended services all over Manhattan, in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

Some history on the historian.

The candidates’ not-straight answers on religion and religious tests for office.

An epic First Amendment fail.

The oddities of last night’s debate.

A new essay in an influential journal illuminates little-known intersections between Catholic thought and US social history. But then it goes on to prescribe an odd fix for US labor woes: razing the wall between church and state.

In the concluding volume of his trilogy on religion and secularism, the author argues that there is no chasm between religious belief and non-belief; certainly not in terms of politics and not even in personal terms.