If you want an education, but don’t have the money or time to go back to school, just show up at the office of the United States Senate Chaplain, and ask Alan Keiran to pray you the knowledge and insights you need.

Back in December of 2009, a survey of the Congressional Prayer Caucus’ Twitter page found that the caucus was following 20 Christian religious groups and 0 non-Christian religious groups. As of July 9 2009, the Congressional Prayer Caucus is following 29 Christian religious groups on Twitter. The CPC is still not following a single group [...]

Bruce Braley’s religious nepotism reminds us that the office of the House Chaplain is a corrupting influence within what is supposed to be a representative assembly serving all Americans, not merely the sacred elites.

Number of Christian organizations followed by the Congressional Prayer Caucus on Twitter: 20 Number of organizations with a religious affiliation other than Christian followed by the Congressional Prayer Caucus on Twitter: 0

Number of Congressional Prayer Caucus twitter posts regarding Christianity: 18 Number of Congressional Prayer Caucus twitter posts regarding any other religion: 0

Over the past few years of reading the religion pages in your local newspaper, you may have come across a reference to something called distant intercessory prayer. The word “intercessory” in this phrase refers to the notion of a deity interceding in worldly events. Distant intercessory prayer is a practice carried out by religious groups [...]

Chaplain Barry C. Black has consistently pushed an agenda that seeks the transformation of the United States of America into a Christian theocracy. The official web site describing the work of the Senate Chaplain, proclaims “God as Sovereign Lord of our Nation…” and declares that the Senate not honor what Black refers to as “the separation of God and State”.

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert this week said of President Barack Obama that “He had poisoned the American people” Dangerous words indeed.

Members of the Senate are much more productive than members of the House. Yet, the senators don’t have any daily prayers asking for the blessings of God, as the members of the House do. This pattern contradicts the assertion that prayer has any power to benefit its recipients.