The First Amendment to the Constitution begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” A few years ago, I paid an after-school ...

A bedrock of American exceptionalism has been the prohibition on using tax dollars to support religion. In America’s “melting pot,” public schools must be open to all without any religious preference ...

Not so very long ago, “separation of church and state” was as American as motherhood and apple pie. Despite perennial debates over the degree of separation, public support for the principle itself has ...

Re “In Coronado, Awaken Church sparks a citywide debate over faith, freedom and hate” (Dec. 15): America is not a Christian nation. Sure, some two-thirds of American citizens identify as Christian, a ...

The latest episode of The State of Belief features the esteemed historian and author, Rev. Dr. Randall Balmer. With host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, he goes in-depth with his latest book, ...

In the spirit of George Carlin and Christopher Hitchens, the son of a former Catholic nun and a Franciscan brother delivers a deeply irreverent and biblically correct takedown of far-right Christian ...

In two cases this term, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court made it abundantly clear that there’s little room for the separation of church and state in its regressive constitutional ...

I read with interest the Aug. 17 letter, " We wish we'd have removed 'Commandments' plaque," stating how the Grand Rapids Area Freethinkers wished they had been the ones to remove a 10 Commandments ...

The week before Christmas, the president asked, “What ever happened to separation of church and state?” It was a question better directed at his own team.

In 1947, the U. S. Supreme Court decided the case of Everson v. Board of Education and thereby officially enshrined into American constitutional law the principle of separation of church and state.