Tag: Faith and politics

Fourth of July and the liturgical calendar

First, the inclusion, omission, and re-inclusion of Independence Day in the liturgical calendar should warn against equating nationalism and Christianity. For its first century and a half, Episcopalians viewed loyalty to Christ and not the nation as paramount.

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Mad Men Christianity

In a column from Religion Dispatches, Willie James Jennings, Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School, sees a “counterfeit Christian”

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FDR’s D-Day Prayer

Just in time for the 70th anniversary of D-Day today, the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent passed a bill to include a prayer plaque at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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We can prevent this

Bishop Mariann Budde of Washington reflects on what it will take to change the apparent lock that the gun lobby has on legislators and the culture.

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