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  • Relentless Advocacy, 60 Years and Counting0

    The Church State Council has more than a milestone anniversary to celebrate this year. It’s also celebrating a legal sea change for people of faith in America’s workplaces and its role in making that happen. (Photo: Students from Pacific Union College join staff from the Church State Council at the California State Capitol for one

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  • Red Church, Blue Church, Purple Church0

    One body in Christ? For America’s pastors, ministering across the political divide brings exhaustion—and opportunities. Pressure is building for pastors in America to be overtly political. In today’s polarized environment, a diminishing number of church members are content for religious leaders to keep their politics private. For many Christians the 2020 presidential election was not

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  • A Messiah Problem0

    Today there is a national political leader who is deliberately and strategically draping his political aspirations in religious imagery in ways that are, frankly, sacrilegious. He has implied that his quest for power has the stamp of divine approval. His language, at times, is messianic. As national elections approach, he’s exploiting emotionally powerful tropes about

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  • “Lives Are at Stake”0

    A Rabbi, a Reverend, and the Power of Bipartisanship An interview with the chair and vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (Photo: USCIRF commissioners meet with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Commission is charged with advising Congress, the U.S. Secretary of State, and the President on religious freedom concerns abroad.)

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  • Untethered0

    The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Approach to Religion Cases The lines between religion and state are about to get even more chaotic. With its June 2022 decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court overturned more than 50 years of precedent under the establishment clause (without acknowledging it was doing so) and

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  • Unholy Alliances0

    An interview with filmmaker Dan Partland. The documentary God & Country, currently showing in theaters, has split opinions among American Christians. It’s a 90-minute, emotionally intense exploration of one of today’s least understood and arguably most subversive political movements, Christian nationalism. It features 18 high-profile Christian thinkers and leaders—from David French, a New York Times

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