"Separation of church and state" has been treated for a generation as settled constitutional law. It isn't a phrase in the Constitution at all. What the document actually says, in sixteen words, is considerably narrower, and considerably more protective of religious Americans, than most people have been taught. That gap between the myth and the…
Faith
Eighty-seven percent of American pastors are already using artificial intelligence in some part of their ministry. A quarter now use it to help write or edit the sermon itself, double the share who even felt comfortable with the idea two years ago. The question facing the American pulpit is no longer whether AI belongs in…
America is not becoming less religious so much as it is relocating its religion. As traditional faith recedes, especially on the political left, the rituals, moral certainties, and even the language of sin and salvation have not disappeared. They have simply found a new home in political identity itself, and the results look less like…
A Colorado baker spent twelve years and two trips to the Supreme Court defending his right to decline a single custom cake. A Colorado web designer sued preemptively rather than wait to be sued herself, and won a ruling that finally answered the question the baker's case had left open. Between those two cases sits…
Packed pews at Asbury, Bible sales climbing for a second straight year, and a generation of young men filling church parking lots that used to sit empty on Sunday mornings. The videos are real. The question is whether they add up to a national turn back to God, or a genuinely encouraging story that is…
If astronomers confirmed tomorrow that intelligent life exists on a planet orbiting a distant star, it would rightly be the biggest scientific story in human history. It would not shake the foundation of the Christian faith, because that foundation was never built on humanity being alone in the universe. It was built on the God…
Three blocks from the United States Capitol, where the marble monuments of American democracy rise against the sky, stands a building unlike anything else in Washington, D.C. Behind forty-foot bronze doors cast with lines from the Gutenberg Bible lies 430,000 square feet dedicated entirely to the book that shaped Western civilization more than any other.…
Few relics in human history have provoked such intense investigation as the Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth imprinted with the faint image of a crucified man. It has been studied by physicists, chemists, pathologists, historians, and skeptics for more than a century. To many, it represents the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. To…
Introduction
The question of whether the United States was founded as a Christian nation is often framed as a matter of modern politics. However, historical documents and the stated intentions of many of the Founders reflect that Christian principles were deeply embedded in the design, rhetoric, and institutions of the early republic. Christianity did not…
