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Lessons from Bonhoeffer 0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
Learning to put God and others—rather than self—at the heart of religious freedom In January 2017, four days after the inauguration of the then-president of the United States, the first class meeting of my spring-term course at Harvard Divinity School focused on the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian of the 1930s
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The Preacher and the President 0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
At America’s founding, an eccentric pastor, a radical vision for religious liberty, and an extraordinary legacy On New Year’s Day, 1802, Thomas Jefferson received one of the most legendary presidential gifts in American history: a gigantic wheel of cheese, 13 feet in circumference and weighing 1,235 pounds. A paper sign draped over its red crust
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Solution or Sellout?0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
Can America navigate the cultural conflict around marriage, religious freedom, and LGBTQ nondiscrimination? With the Respect for Marriage Act, Congress moves beyond a winner-take-all approach. The current political toxicity in Washington, D.C., means that every question of public policy attracts stridently different interpretations from both left and right. So the level of inflammatory, contradictory messaging
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Freedom For or Freedom From Religion?0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
The annual National Prayer Breakfast, attended by every U.S. president since 1953, acts as a national Rorschach test. How we look at it depends on how we answer a simple question: What role, if any, should religion play in the civic life of our country? Does the event harmlessly celebrate the diverse faith traditions of
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