What do you think of when you hear the word “church”? A little, white clap-board building? Stained-glass windows? Mahogany pews?…
I once discovered that a friend of mine had started attending a Unity church. “What?” I said. “You’re a Christian—and…
The Murphy Brown episode has come back to haunt us again. At the Emmy awards, the creator of the sitcom…
The editor of a small-town newspaper recently said, “Family values are important, … but people want to hear about the…
A few years ago, the Smithsonian museum put up a new display with Archie Bunker’s overstuffed armchair, from the famous…
Back in 1906, Hilaire Belloc ran for election for the British Parliament. As a Roman Catholic in a strongly Protestant…
On the fourth of July, the New York Times ran a reproduction of the Declaration of Independence. Readers could marvel…
“Things would really be different if we could just get more Christians elected to office.” I can’t tell you how…
America is in the middle of its quadrennial ritual: the presidential campaign. The democratic experiment at its best (and its…
On television a few days ago, the cameras zoomed in on Governor Clinton as he emerged from a Baptist church.…
