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there is no such thing as good or bad there is only justice. no justice no peace. My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, Aja Monet And I know we too are made of all the things that we have lost here Day…

Roy Moore. Photo: Wikimedia. Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore –– arguably the most openly theocratic candidate to run for a major office in the U.S. in modern times –– almost won.

On Friday, December 15, the Washington Post reported that the Trump administration has prohibited the Center for Disease Control (CDC) from using certain terms.

Steny Hoyer was right, and we should thank the House Majority leader for clarifying things. In a stem-winding speech urging the second impeachment of Donald Trump, he said he keeps hearing about “the…

How can American society recover from Trumpism? A new administration solves a lot of problems, but President Biden can’t magically make American extremism disappear; his tenure won’t mean the end of…

There’s a reason religion and politics are forbidden topics in polite conversation: they’re divisive. Mixing the two is doubly so. President Joe Biden is a deeply religious man who turns to his faith…

C’mon, admit it: you had the Kleenex handy while you watched the swearing-in of the 46th president with all of the attendant ruffles and flourishes. I certainly did. I doubt that any other…

In her new book, Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s Capital and Redeem a Christian America , religion scholar Lauren Kerby details D.C.’s Christian heritage tour industry and its…

As the United States prepares for the end of a nightmarish one-term presidency that seemed to drag on forever, Americans continue to unpack the January 6 insurrection that now even soon-to-be Senate…

After the 2000 presidential campaign, I felt a shock of recognition when I read that the George W. Bush Administration planned to use its “faith-based” funding to support organizations to encourage women, especially welfare recipients, to marry. The rationale was that marriage would cure their poverty. Wade Horn, appointed by Bush to be in charge of welfare programs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), had been the titular head of “fatherhood movement.”