...So Congress, despite the insistence of Trump’s opponents, lacks the power to impeach someone who is no longer a federal official. And the Constitution also prohibits Congress from enacting “ex post facto law.”

President Joe Biden campaigned on promises to govern by “consensus.” He devoted his Inaugural Address to “unity.” Yet he has issued more executive orders and actions in the first three weeks of his presidency than any president in U.S. history.

The U.S. Supreme Court has solidified its support for religious freedom, delivering a blow last Friday night against arbitrary attempts by California's Governor Gavin Newsom to prevent people of faith from gathering indoors to worship.

...Even if athletes have long been superstitious, their newfound willingness to name their various mystical practices slots into a broader cultural moment. In recent years, we’ve seen a real uptick in idioms utilizing “mood,” “energy,” and “vibes”; Enya is having a moment; young people are obsessed with astrology, and crystal sales have seen an uptick.

The British coronavirus strain is doubling in the U.S. every 10 days, according to a study released Sunday on the medRxiv server.

Four of the men who will take the field for tonight’s Super Bowl have made clear that, while they want very much to win the football game, there is something vastly more important and rewarding in their lives.

The church in Myanmar is asking Christians worldwide to pray for them following this week's military coup.

Only Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Carper oppose motion; Jerusalem council recently approved plans for additional embassy compound.

....We fail if we abandon the streets of our towns and cities to the cults.

...If public education is failing, then maybe it’s time to try other options.

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives both approved Friday (Feb. 5) a budget resolution that paves the way for enactment of President Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

Time magazine has published a detailed account of what it describes as a “conspiracy” between “left-wing activists and business titans” to create “an extraordinary shadow effort” to “protect” the 2020 presidential election.

What will US religion look like in a decade or two? This is the subject of a lively scholarly controversy right now...People who look at US religion, which predominantly means Christianity, differ significantly on present prospects.

...In the midst of these challenges, there has been a whole raft of lessons and learning. It has reminded and reinforced things I have always believed about preaching and revealed and created a reckoning with things that I didn’t know about my heart.

....The new refrain is that Christians are so foolish, even racist, because we voted for Donald Trump and believe in an array of “conspiracy theories.” Here is the latest article promoting Christian gullibility....

COVID-19 has, at the very least, forced churches to think about conducting ministry and mission in the digital space.

A proposed law on religion in Denmark would require clergy to translate their messages into Danish and submit them to the government.

President Joe Biden’s deputies are trying not to detain the rapidly rising inflow of economic migrants who are coming across Americans’ Southern border in search of blue-collar jobs, homes, and the Democrats’ dangled prize of American citizenship.

Iran has deepened a key breach of its 2015 nuclear deal, enriching uranium with a larger number of advanced centrifuge machines in an underground plant as it faces off with the new U.S. administration on salvaging the accord.