(RNS) — The monks' efforts were not employed, as today, to rationalize bad behavior on one's own side, but as bona fide criticism of both.

(RNS) — Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commission, proved himself to be an apostate of the state's religion: football.

(RNS) — Will that make him a Southern Baptist pariah?

(RNS) — Let's look back to New Orleans in 1962.

(RNS) — The answer shouldn't please church-state separationists.

(RNS) — Amid our hyper-polarized politics, it helps to have religious communities that do not align with either side.

(RNS) — Neither is good.

(RNS) — Two views from the past.

(RNS) — The founders' belief about religion and government changed fast — mostly because of what was happening overseas.

(RNS) — Not that the anti-Israel hard-liners in his base have given him a hard time for admitting he couldn’t do what he said he’d do.

(RNS) — Pope Leo is someone who can't be pushed around.

(RNS) — A cautionary tale for today.

(RNS) — Try this Caesar.

(RNS) — In line with long-standing papal concerns.

(RNS) — Few Americans didn't know someone whose life hadn't been claimed by war.

(RNS) — The framers of the Constitution went a long way toward making sure that wasn't the case.

(RNS) — If their conversation was as frank as predicted.

(RNS) — The armed man who sought to break into the White House Correspondents' dinner hails from a long line of religious extremists looking to commit political violence in the name of God.

(RNS) — Over 60 years of establishment clause jurisprudence will be overturned if the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals gets its way.

(RNS) — It would look like this.

(RNS) — Or at least the loss of its most visible champion.

(RNS) — But that remains to be seen.

(RNS) — Republicans look to the past to rescue themselves in the midterms.

(RNS) — Its religious commitment cannot be overemphasized.

Both Democrats oppose Trump, but the political consultant and the U.S. Senate candidate take different rhetorical lines.

No.

Pope Leo XIV may be less inclined to stick his thumb in the eye of the conservative resistance, but he's no less committed to Pope Francis' agenda.

The strange case of Yoram Hazony.

The strange case of Yoram Hazony.

(RNS) — Asked about the Gospel of Matthew, Johnson answered with the Book of Leviticus. There's a reason for that.

(RNS) — In 1850, many Christian preachers publicly supported the Fugitive Slave Act against widespread protests. What’s different today?

(RNS) — In 1850, many Christian preachers publicly supported the Fugitive Slave Act against widespread protests. What’s different today?

(RNS) — A former colleague and Minneapolis native reports on life at ground zero of the immigration enforcement crackdown.

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(RNS) — Whether you follow the Apostle Paul’s injunction or not, there’s a long-standing tradition to back you up.

(RNS) — A contemporary dialogue.

(RNS) — The main character may not be upright, but he's an archetype in the mythos of the American Dream.

(RNS) — The United States goes to war with Christian identity as cover.

(RNS) — Call it inclusion, Christian nationalist style.

(RNS) — It’s the opposite of Trump Derangement Syndrome, only worse.

(RNS) — Samantha Fulnecky could have posed a serious, Bible-based challenge to a question about gender in her psych class paper. But she didn't.

(RNS) — When we teach the influence of 'Judeo-Christian values,' we need to teach how that influence actually worked.

(RNS) — As someone who has been studying the use of ‘Judeo-Christian’ in American public discourse for over 40 years, I can say with confidence its usage has come full circle.

(RNS) — On All Saints' Day, the nominally nondenominational president went full Roman Catholic.

(RNS) — Jews have a choice.

(RNS) — Possession wasn't as spooky in the Middle Ages as it is in 'The Exorcist.'

(RNS) — No Bibles in public school classrooms for now.

(RNS) — Answering a Turning Point USA questioner, the erstwhile GOP presidential candidate deftly fended them off by citing the US Constitution.

(RNS) — A tale of two Ninevehs.