Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The plan is a guide for historically black university to become more competitive in the higher-education market, help its students succeed, develop strong leaders within the college and become fiscally solvent, leaders said.

The minister says he knows the letter he sent parishioners was inappropriate. But spare a thought, and perhaps a prayer, for clergy who even now find the cursor hovering over the “send” button. There are more than you might think.

One Baptist minister said he initially joined because the union movement needs Christians to be involved. “But since that time … a complaint was made against me and I realized it could be very helpful,” he said.

In a legal case with profound implications for LGBT rights and religion’s place in public life, the opposing sides agree on this: It’s not about the cake.

Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. began his Poor People’s Campaign, William J. Barber II, a black minister and civil rights leader from North Carolina, and Liz Theoharis, a white theologian originally from Milwaukee, will revive it.

The conventional guidance, parroted as if it were gospel, goes something like: Be generous, follow your passions and do enough research to verify that a chosen charity won’t squander your money. It’s not that simple.

Some object that using taxpayer funds to rebuild houses of worship would violate separation of church and state, but proponents argue that religious groups, which are often at the forefront of disaster relief efforts, are being unfairly disadvantaged.