moral

Donald Trump and the battering of civil religion

By John D. Carlson — January 19, 2018
(RNS) — American civil religion is the moral backbone of our body politic — a heritage of shared beliefs, stories, ideas, symbols and events that explains the American experience of self-government with reference to a moral order that transcends it.

COMMENTARY: Rolling a joint, a metaphor for a nation losing its way

By Tom Ehrich — May 27, 2014
(RNS) The legal calculation is that he won't get caught. The moral calculation is that not a single one of the people around him matters at all.
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