Yes, states can limit how many people can gather in churches, right along with placing limitations on how many people can gather at concerts, theaters,…
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On Friday, Donald Trump declared churches “essential” to social cohesion and demanded that governors open them immediately. Trump then spent Sunday morning the same way…
You can tell a leader is running out of ideas when she tells everyone to pray: [Governor Kristi] Noem also proclaimed Wednesday a day of…
Representative Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) wasted more of the Legislature’s time this week with House Concurrent Resolution 6012, a restatement of the obvious fact of…
Mark Galli retires today from his position as editor in chief of Christianity Today. Galli put his name to the famous and powerful December 19,…
Back in the hot, dry summer of 2017, some prominent South Dakota Jesus-nuts made a show of praying for rain. The summer remained hot and…
The fact is, no South Dakotan has ever done what I have done for atheism itself! I would never make such a claim. I have…
The Mitchell Daily Republic reports that someone masquerading as a Christian pastor hijacked the Mitchell City Council’s opening prayer to deliver a nakedly partisan political…
In the spirit of Governor Kristi Noem’s call to identify with the downtrodden, I consider renaming my series of letters from the South Dakota State…
Just as it loses one fight for discrimination, the Trump Administration invites another. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a rule…