The founders simply wanted to prevent Congress and the federal government from establishing a national religion.

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 ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our ...

Two hundred fifty years ago, the American Revolution began with the “shot heard ‘round the world.” The Revolution set the stage for a new nation based not on ethnicity or geography or religion, but on ...

The genius of the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is found in the balance each provides the other. Ideally, the Free Exercise Clause protects and maintains our ...

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 ...

During his remarks to the White House Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible several months ago in September, Donald ...

Rev. Dr. Randall Balmer joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to discuss his latest book, "America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State", about a foundational – and increasingly ...

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 ...

Jordan Peterson reminds us that civilizations work on life’s deepest problems for centuries. One of the greatest of those problems is what should be the nature of our government. All over the globe, ...

A proposal to post the Ten Commandments in Kern County Superintendent of Schools' campuses will be considered Nov. 13 when the Board of Education meets. The proposal was introduced at this month’s ...

It was drilled into me at an early age that part of being an American was the belief in the separation of Church and State. Of course, the foundation of that belief goes back to the earliest history ...