I was setting out to write a post about a little-noticed agreement reached by congressional Republican negotiators last week. The arrangement removed a harmful legislative provision that would have allowed military chaplains to offer sectarian prayers at public ceremonies in exchange for striking down religious freedom guidelines developed in the wake of concerns that religious…

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I meet a lot of very interesting people at book tables while signing their copies of God’s Politics. Even in brief exchanges I learn about who is reading the book, what they really care about, and what gives them hope. Recently, I met a woman who told me an amazing story. While I was inscribing…

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to present a defense to you in this matter. If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire and out of your hand, O king, let him deliver us. But if not, be it…

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