Senior officials are urging Americans to pray for military victory in explicitly Christian terms, service members are filing complaints about commanders framing war as God’s divine plan, and Christian prayer services are being organized inside federal agencies. The Constitution permits faith in public life, but it draws a line between making room for religion and using government authority to promote it.
This piece traces where that line sits today, how the Supreme Court has moved it, and why it’s so hard to draw that line.
