Visit the Iowa Republican Party's homepage and you'll see an announcement about Donald Trump as the main event at the organization's Lincoln Day Dinner, next June 10. Well, why shouldn't they make a big deal out of it? The man's a bona fide celebrity, crossing all kinds of exciting lines...

The agenda for the House of Representatives contains a bill, recently reported out of the Judiciary Committee, that asks our elected officials to reaffirm "In God We Trust" as our national motto. News reports indicate the bill's supporters appear particularly keen on having public school classrooms display the...

Maybe it was purely coincidence, but something striking took place in Illinois when Governor Pat Quinn chose March 9 to sign legislation abolishing the death penalty in his state. In the Christian calendar, Ash Wednesday (falling this year on that date) traditionally marks a time of abstinence, in which the...

When was the last time a Congressional committee decided to investigate Americans based on their religious affiliation? I thought I knew something about our nation's history, but I admit I'm coming up empty on this one.

So it may well be that Rep. Peter King, a long-serving Long Island...

The university where I teach hosts an annual, community dinner in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year, the event falls a full week after the official holiday, which has the effect -- a welcome one -- of encouraging people to spend more than a single...

America's Founders, with their bedrock commitment to religious liberty, never considered creating the job of National Bishop. Instead, they gave us the presidency, an office that occasionally demands its occupant exercise a clear, theological function -- to comfort console a people who have always believed themselves to be uniquely "under...