Of the many changes in our politics, the most astonishing may be the dramatic increase in the prominence of religion in political life.

Religion has never been far from American civic life, but the memorial service for the conservative activist Charlie Kirk underlined how intimately politics and religion have become entwined in the Trump years.

The president’s religious impulse

The presence of religious themes in a memorial service is entirely appropriate and indeed unremarkable. Mr. Kirk was a religious man, and no accounting of his life can reasonably, or fairly, be made without sufficient acknowledgement of the role that faith paid in his work, which speaker after speaker portrayed as — what follows is my word, not theirs — a ministry.

Most presidents have spoken of religion in gene

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