WASHINGTON — It happens every week at meetings in towns, counties and cities nationwide. A lawmaker or religious leader leads a prayer before officials begin the business of zoning changes, contract ...

Brevard's newest school board member is kicking 2025 off with a goal of putting prayer at the start of meetings. Adding a voluntary invocation before board meetings, John Thomas said, would be “a ...

CLARK COUNTY, Wash. — The Clark County Council is facing controversy over its longstanding practice of starting meetings with prayer. For years, the council has opened its sessions with an "invocation ...

In response to letter writer Neil Matzkin, who objected to prayer before Clark County School Board meetings: In 2014, the Supreme Court upheld a New York state town’s practice of opening its municipal ...

I keep hearing about local school boards and councils led by conservative Christians insisting that public meetings open with prayer. What’s up with that? I assume these professed Christians have read ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — For the first time, the Satanic Temple of West Michigan will lead the opening prayer at the Ottawa County Commission. This isn't the first time the religious group has been in ...

I am responding to the Leader editorial of June 4, which recommended ending the invocation prayer at Hutchinson City Council meetings. The town’s ministerial association maintains a rotation list of ...

But the case didn't set any boundaries on those prayers, and today courts disagree on what is permissible. For example, an appeals court ruling in 2011 against Forsyth County’s prayer practices said ...