Former President Jimmy Carter took a gentle poke at President Donald Trump at the start of a commencement address to graduates of Liberty University in Virginia.

While AA presents itself to the public as a mere program of recovery from alcoholism, it’s actually best thought of as a particular moral community, offering a comprehensive conception of how one ought to live one’s life.

Across the country, churches, synagogues and mosques have become increasingly conscious of their moral obligation to care for the environment. Many are stepping up their environmental activism by investing in renewable energy and particularly solar panels. But the speed with which they take on solar panels has much to do with economics.

It’s shameful, not only because they use their theology to make the moving of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem a matter of “eternal” significance, but also because they refuse to hold the Netanyahu government accountable for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, some of whom are themselves evangelical Christians.

As climate change threatens our very future, and economic inequality stokes dangerous social polarization, we are literally in a battle for our lives — one that can only be won in “sage mode” rather than “warrior mode.” We now need to show up at our wisest and best. And that only happens when the political and the spiritual are integrated.

The alliance between fundamentalist Protestants and Roman Catholics cannot survive the humiliations of evangelical support for President Trump.

The Rev. William Barber II and the Rev. Liz Theoharis led dozens of demonstrators at a rally and march in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon. Similar rallies were coordinated and held in front of state houses in over 30 states across the country, according to organizers ― from Tennessee to Massachusetts to California.

Like the storm-cellar vigils of a childhood in West Texas, Pentecost is wild and unpredictable, always hard and most always scary. We don’t know what might happen, but we know we’ll be changed.

Removing religious liberty protections in the name of religious freedom taints the cause. Honoring freedom for faith-based providers, while taking it away from people receiving services, is wrong.

Israeli leaders have long welcomed evangelical support. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken this support to a new level. Netanyahu presents himself as the protector of Christian holy sites and a leader in the fight against Islamic extremism. In turn, Christian Zionists have given strong support for Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist and aggressive agendas.