The president’s second inaugural address embraced American exceptionalism and invoked the “founding creed” of the Declaration of Independence. More →

January 25, 2013

“We saw the president as the one who would bring us together as a country, and what we learned in the first administration is that we were not yet ready to be that country,” says Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. More →

January 18, 2013

Three religious leaders continue their conversation about the mood of the country as President Obama’s second inaugural approaches and consider the crisis of gun violence and the inability of American society to deal with conflict. Violence, says theology professor Harold Dean Trulear, is “who we are as Americans.” More →

January 18, 2013

We ask religion leaders what they hope for during President Barack Obama’s next term, including former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, who says, “If we can make sure that Israel has a proper nation with safe borders and at the same time allow the Palestinians to have their own state…then many of the world’s problems in terms of interfaith dialogue will be resolved.” More →

January 18, 2013

President Obama discusses his plans and hopes for the American religious community. More →

January 23, 2009

Read comments from two scholars on the moral arguments and religious themes that were all part of the recent American civic liturgy — the Inaugural Address, the State of the Union Address, and the National Prayer Breakfast. More →

February 4, 2005