Abraham Lincoln
Why didn’t President Biden kick off his campaign at Gettysburg?
By Mark Silk — January 8, 2024
(RNS) — The comparison to outright Civil War was likely too dangerous.
What does Watch Night mean for Black Americans today? It dates back to the Emancipation Proclamation
By Associated Press — January 1, 2024
Watch Night is still being observed each New Year's Eve, at many multiracial and predominantly Black churches across the country.
Why virtue signaling isn’t the same as virtue – it actually furthers the partisan divide
By Christopher Beem — September 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — Virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm its moral superiority. A scholar of ethics and politics explains why that is unwelcome in a divided US.
Despite white Christianity’s role in Capitol assault, some signs of hope and change
By Robert P. Jones — July 16, 2021
(RNS) — White Christians have only begun the work of reckoning with white supremacy.
‘We still have work to do’: How to understand the new Juneteenth holiday
By Paul O'Donnell — June 18, 2021
(RNS) — Theon Hill, an expert on rhetoric, race and social change in American culture, discusses Juneteenth and how holidays in general reflect our realities as well as our aspirations as a nation.
Anti-maskers: You are the reason we can’t have nice things
By Jana Riess — July 16, 2020
(RNS) — Instead of rejoicing that masks give us a safe, cheap and effective way to stop the spread of COVID-19, some Americans are resisting in the name of ‘freedom.’ Freedom for whom?
The maddeningly untraditional and modern faith of Abraham Lincoln
By Stephen Mansfield — August 12, 2019
(RNS) — An atheist, then a seeker, he was convinced of God’s existence but agonized over the meaning of Providence in a tragic world; Lincoln’s faith was much like what we see among millions today.
Barack Obama, Lincolnesque theologian
By Mark Silk — July 13, 2016
His speech in Dallas bears comparison with Lincoln's Second Inaugural.
Don’t diss Alexander Hamilton!
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 25, 2015
Keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 dollar bill. He's the only "Jew" we have in our wallets.
‘Christian America’: Corporate invention or founding fathers’ vision?
By Jonathan Merritt — April 3, 2015
A Princeton historian says the idea that America is a "Christian nation" is a modern invention fueled by corporations, clergy, and politicians.
Frank Underwood just dissed God. Would a real president do that?
By David Gibson — March 5, 2015
(RNS) Frank Underwood's epic rant against God reveals a religious side of American presidents that we all imagine they have, but probably don't want to admit.
Which U.S. Presidents were the most religious?
By Jonathan Merritt — February 16, 2015
Almost all U.S. commander-in-chiefs have been Protestant Christians and only three were religiously unaffiliated. Who were the most fervent in their faith?
The echoes of Abraham Lincoln in President Obama’s Prayer Breakfast speech (COMMENTARY)
By John Fea — February 11, 2015
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (RNS) No president has made such an appeal to humility and mystery since Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.
Can a nation so wounded by its divisions survive? (COMMENTARY)
By Tom Ehrich — November 25, 2014
(RNS) We must ask who we are. Not what advertisers say we are, but who we actually are.
COMMENTARY: Father Abraham and the Jews
By A. James Rudin — February 21, 2013
(RNS) Steven Spielberg’s "Lincoln'' will probably pick up a few Oscars on Sunday, and it shows that Americans will never tire of our 16th president. While the film centers on the fight to abolish slavery in 1865, two years earlier Lincoln used his powers to correct another injustice aimed at American Jews.
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