Although the debate is national in scope, NC has become an unexpected focal point, with figures like Greear, Wolfe, and Spangler reflecting an ongoing divide within American conservatism over the role religion should play in public life.
Tipper Pressley has dedicated the past 18 years to archiving the unique customs of mountainfolk and sharing them with an ever-growing audience.
During World War II, the sunrise service at Home Moravian was broadcast globally via the Armed Forces Radio Network.
The updated guidelines specify that students, teachers, and employees do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
President Donald Trump has appointed former North Carolina Congressman Mark Walker as Principal Advisor for Global Religious Freedom in the US Department of State. Walker had been awaiting US Senate confirmation for Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom after being nominated by Trump in April of 2025. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Jim Risch reportedly...
In a time when American public life is often fractured by suspicion and resentment, their story calls us back to something older and sturdier: courage rooted in conviction, unity grounded in service, and prayer that moves beyond words into action.
The framers understood that liberty depends not only on rights, but on respect and responsible restraint. The right to speak freely does not erase another person’s right to worship freely.
The post-liberal worldview, to the degree it has made itself known, appears identical to the failed pre-liberal one, where unity was achieved by government force.
In today’s politics, some Americans who consider themselves to be on the right reject the classical liberalism of free markets and individual liberty.
We should continue to fight for politically neutral public schools while also understanding true neutrality is impossible when teaching children what matters.
Outrage won’t solve our problems. And it won’t prepare us for tomorrow. What is needed now is a sense of redemption and reasons to feel hopeful.
