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Tax or fee? Pastors push back against city’s ‘annual registration fee’

(RNS) City officials in East St. Louis say a new $100 “annual registration fee” will help defray the costs of building safety inspections. Pastors, however, say it’s a tax by another name, and possibly unconstitutional.
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One nation under God?

| Feb 6, 2013

Ever since I can remember, I’ve heard about the “separation of church and state,” buzzwords imprinted on my mind. But the problem with such buzzword phrases is that they imply a simplicity to issues that are anything but. They imply that we live in a world of black and white, when we actually spend almost all of our lives in various grey areas.
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COMMENTARY: Mr. President, leave your Bibles at home

| Jan 18, 2013

It's the Constitutionally mandated oath of office, not the pair of historic Bibles, that is both necessary and sufficient for President Obama to begin his second term. Linking that oath to any religious text does not add to its efficacy.
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Myrlie Evers-Williams talks about upcoming inaugural invocation

| Jan 15, 2013

Myrlie Evers-Williams, 79, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, will be the first laywoman to give an invocation at a presidential inauguration when she prays at President Obama’s swearing-in on Jan. 21.
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Contraception opponents hail DC court ruling

| Dec 20, 2012

Foes of the federal contraception mandate are cheering a Tuesday (Dec. 18) appeals court decision requiring the Obama administration to devise exemptions to the new rule for two Christian colleges.
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Calls to secede run deep in American religious, political history

| Nov 30, 2012

Some argue Washington's failures have made secession necessary. Others dismiss calls to secede as a failure to accept the two-party system. Regardless, America has a long history of movements that look to associate purity with separation.
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INTERACTIVE: Religious affiliation of Missouri’s Congress members

| Nov 28, 2012

What's your Missouri congressional representative's religion? Check out our interactive map.
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New Congress more religiously diverse, less Protestant

| Nov 20, 2012

Three Buddhists, a Hindu and a “none” will walk into the 113th Congress, and it’s no joke. Rather, it’s a series of “firsts” that reflect the growing religious diversity of the country.
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Report: Winning presidency less dependent on white Christian voters

| Nov 16, 2012

White Christians are still turning out for elections, but there's a problem: The group is shrinking in comparison to other groups, including religiously unaffiliated voters. 
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For Petraeus, echoes of that other warrior David

| Nov 15, 2012

It’s tempting to view the sex scandal surrounding former Gen. David Petraeus through a religious lens. Even before his fall from grace, some Pentagon colleagues compared Petraeus to the biblical King David - another proud and powerful warrior.
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Hawaii Democrat poised to be elected first Hindu in Congress

| Nov 2, 2012

Hindu Americans have succeeded as engineers, doctors and lawyers in America, but one profession has been out of reach: Congress. That could change next week as Democrat Tulsi Gabbard looks poised to win a seat in Hawaii.
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