Richard B. Katskee is Legal Director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Symbols have power. They communicate complex ideas, often more effectively and more forcefully than mere ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled a greater willingness to allow religious symbols on public land Wednesday, a stance that could have important implications for future church-state ...

WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority signaled a greater willingness to allow religious symbols on public land Wednesday, a stance that could have important ...

In the Supreme Court decision released June 20 that Bladensburg, Maryland, could maintain a cross standing above a highway as a memorial to 49 World War I servicemen from that area who were killed in ...

When is a cross not a Christian symbol? When the Supreme Court says it isn’t. Even as Michael Cohen dominated the news on Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about a 40-foot cross on public ...

At issue in the case itself is a 40-foot concrete Latin cross that stands in the traffic island of a Maryland highway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Community leaders in Bladensburg, ...

There has been a disturbing willingness on the part of some judges in recent years to treat the Christian cross as a symbol that isn’t, well, just Christian. The most high-profile and problematic ...

A secularist group asked East Central University to remove Christian-specific symbols from their chapel, and the school temporarily agreed before reversing their decision. If the group pursues legal ...

Christian icons are back in fashion… and more subversive than ever. Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Pope Francis share very little wardrobe-wise, apart from one very significant, very trendy item: the ...