Amanda Tyler
Amanda Tyler is an author at Religion News Service.
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Jan. 6 committee must address Christian nationalism
By Amanda Tyler — June 9, 2022
(RNS) — The hearings in Congress provide an opportunity for the public to see Christian nationalism for what it is.
Christian nationalism cannot unite us
By Amanda Tyler — February 11, 2021
(RNS) — What Jeep’s Super Bowl ad misses is that both nostalgic Christian nationalism and violent Christian nationalism are harmful and divisive.
We can protect prayer in schools without blessing Christian nationalism
By Amanda Tyler — January 17, 2020
(RNS) — Claiming to defend a constitutional right under attack, the Trump administration's announcement on school prayer neither identified the threat nor bolstered students' well-established freedom to pray.
The Supreme Court made the Bladensburg Cross a special case. Let’s keep it that way
By Amanda Tyler — June 24, 2019
(RNS) — In deciding to allow a Christian cross to stay on a Maryland highway, the court rejected some of the extreme arguments that may have had more far-reaching consequences for the Establishment Clause.
How outrage for a death row inmate may have flipped the justices for religious liberty
By Amanda Tyler — April 2, 2019
(RNS) — The traditional view has been that these nine jurists are insulated from pressure, but the response to a case of a Muslim denied the right to his imam at his execution may have proved the exception.
Politicize our charities and churches? No, thanks
By Amanda Tyler — February 9, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) Beware, for as soon as the church joins at the hip with a particular candidate or party, its ability to speak truth to power and not risk being co-opted by the government is hindered.
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