But his inclusion on the list of “saints,” however informally, at my otherwise extremely traditional Episcopalian church speaks to a wider trend in both religious and secular spaces alike ...

Nelson Mandela, contemporary South Africa’s founder, statesman, and secular saint, is only recently buried. Washington and Mandela stand as remarkably parallel figures. They deserve praise and ...

The Church honors Jeanne d’Arc as a virgin martyr and national patroness, whose courage, purity and fortitude continue to ...

And Niebuhr came close to Jacoby’s position when he reflected that secular saints sometimes put religious ones to shame by slogging for justice without any thought of what was in it for them.