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June 2014

June 09, 2014

Which religions favor separation of church and state?

LISA ASKS: Do all religions teach separation between church and state? If not, which...

May 2014

May 12, 2014

Should the high court have backed town council prayers?

BRAD ASKS: [Regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's new Greece v. Galloway ruling that allows prayers...

May 11, 2014

Pod people: Reindeers and the quest for nonsectarian prayer

So why, you ask, is that generic civic Christmas scene on top of this GetReligion...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Read this story and weep! But ask a few more questions

Every now and then, I receive private emails, or emails sent through our contact link,...

January 10, 2014

Really? Editors who don’t know about the ‘reindeer rules’?

Sorry about this, folks, but we need to take a quick glance back at a...

December 2013

December 17, 2013

Latest coverage from the church of The New York Times

Few news consumers would be surprised that the journalists at Baptist Press frame their coverage...

December 10, 2013

Concerning plastic reindeer and ‘Merry Christmas’ rules

MARY ASKS: What happened to saying “Merry Christmas”? Is the move to saying “Happy Holidays”...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

This is praise: USA Today church-state story was confusing

Welcome back to the First Amendment wars, an increasingly active front in our nation's Culture...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

BBC attacks major same-sex marriage stereotype (updated)

Here inside the Beltway, a kind of nervous hush has settled over the church-state battlefield...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Serious story on separation of yoga and state

When I saw this story come in (clicking on a URL from a reader), I...

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