Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics

"There is nothing greater than indignation to stimulate a writer to write," says Robert Benne," and my outrage has been stirred mightily by reading so many wrongheaded 'takes' on how religion and politics ought to be related."

Benne's anger has compelled him to present this clear argument for a more reasonable approach to the inevitable relationship between religion and politics. Secularists may call for a complete separation of church and state; left-and right-wing Christians alike may zeal...