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This week’s rollout of a congressional bill in support of abortion reduction has been given the blessing of religious leaders from across the spectrum; a rare show of agreement over one of the most contentious issues in American society. But what does it mean that religion has played such an important role in this conflict?

A new campaign from the religious right, “The Civility Project,” aims to solve difficult social issues with politeness. What’s the real agenda here?

The latest operations of religious leaders in the public sphere remind us that power and prophecy are naturally opposed.

Despite worldwide calls from conservative Anglicans that the American church is choosing to “walk apart” from the wider community, the numbers don’t agree—at least not in America.

What went through the mind of this haunted man with the “thousand-yard stare” in his later years as he shuffled back and forth to work just “a hand grenade’s throw” from the Vietnam War Memorial?

Wherein the author, a friend of the Rev. Brad Braxton and an Episcopal priest, recalls his own harrowing year in the pulpit and the toll it can take on self and family.