Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. On April 25, the Supreme Court will hear Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a case that was ...

Growing in prayer is not simply acquiring a set of special spiritual skills that operate in one bit of your life. It is about growing into what St. Paul calls “the measure of the full stature of ...

'If somebody said, give me a summary of Christian faith on the back of an envelope, the best thing to do would be to write Our Lord's Prayer.' If somebody said, give me a summary of Christian faith on ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday that public meetings can be opened with Christian prayers. As long as one does not denigrate another's faith or proselytize, such prayer is in keeping with ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

Observers weigh in as a judge considers the question. In Mullin v. Sussex County, Delaware, a U.S. District Court must answer whether the Lord’s Prayer is sectarian. Four residents sued the county ...