The Rev. Mel McGinnis’ latest opinion piece, “Were the Signers Really Just Deists?” argues that the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were majority Christian, not Deist. There are ...

The First Amendment to the Constitution begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” A few years ago, I paid an after-school ...

Many people know Thomas Jefferson's phrase about a "wall of separation between church and state." Fewer know how that phrase entered constitutional law. It's a curious story, which I discuss in a new ...

A bedrock of American exceptionalism has been the prohibition on using tax dollars to support religion. In America’s “melting pot,” public schools must be open to all without any religious preference ...

The relationship between government and religious freedom is one that has been in the news a lot lately. In the United States, we hold our religious freedom -- and the right to express our opinion on ...

Last week a militant group of U.S. clergymen and laymen met in Washington and set out to raise $1,000,000 “to resist the declared purposes of the Roman Catholic Church further to breach the wall of ...