In RNS' new five-part video series, "What Does It Mean to Belong in America?," five prominent faith leaders and thinkers — Sen. Raphael Warnock, Rabbi Sharon Brous, historian John Fea, pastor Tony Suarez and Interfaith America's Eboo Patel — offer different answers, shaped by their religious traditions and experiences with immigration. In the latest episode, Fea, a professor at Messiah University, argues the role of Christianity in America's founding is more complicated than people understand. The founders barred an official church but valued religion for its public good — and were themselves divided on immigration.  Top Stories | (RNS) Watch the new RNS video series in which prominent faith leaders and thinkers weigh in on the questions at the heart of the American experiment. |
 | WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘The pillars of this great republic are not made of marble; they are made of scripture,’ said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez during a five-hour program on faith. |
 | Scholars say American history is more Christian than secular advocates claim — and less religious than Christian nationalists would assert. A look at the complicated, contested history of America as a Christian nation. |
 | (RNS) — Only about 1% of houses of worship in the U.S. today existed in 1776. Here are four that predate the revolution — and still hold services. |
 | In some ways, the debate over Paine's legacy today is a proxy for a much larger debate over whose vision gets to govern. |
 | (RNS) — Host Niala Boodhoo was joined at the American University in Washington, D.C., by RNS national reporter Jack Jenkins, religious liberty lawyer and Muslim identity scholar Asma T. Uddin, Mark D. Hall of Regent University and Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center. |
Opinion | (RNS) — This man didn’t set foot in North America. He never signed a founding document. But there is a compelling case that our country’s great story would look very different without him. |
 | (The Conversation) — Muslims were woven into both America’s founding population and its labor force, writes a scholar of Islam on the nation’s 250th anniversary. |
 | (RNS) — While it is fitting and proper for individuals and congregations to rededicate themselves to their God in prayer, it is not the role of government to unite America in faith. |
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