Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is ...

Last week, a Donald Trump-appointed judge in Texas deemed Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act “unlawful.” Blocking further deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members under that law, U.S.

I was recently interviewed by Jessie Schiewe of The LA Times. The subject of the piece is Evan Halleck of Long Beach, a The Mummy superfan who recently quit his job on a quest to collect as many VHS ...

The Chicago City Council, like many other legislative bodies, typically opens meetings with an "invocation"—essentially, a prayer or moment of reflection. Clergy from a wide range of religious ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Prayers before Coeur d’Alene City Council meetings could be seeing their final Amen, as reported by the Coeur d'Alene Press. The city, which recently took over scheduling ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated on Wednesday, Aug. 21, at 8:45 a.m., with reactions to Cardinal Cupich's remarks. In an invocation delivered on the opening night of the 2024 Democratic National ...

This blog was updated on March 26, 2025. Even before President Donald Trump took office, he repeatedly used “invasion” rhetoric to divide our communities and advance an anti-immigrant agenda. Last ...

Devin Friend is a graduate of McNeese State University with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. Starting from the day that he played Super Mario Kart on a Super Nintendo that he received as a ...