One cannot say for certain that Rep. Mike Johnson was deliberately lying during his acceptance speech to return as Speaker of the House. He read what he claimed was a prayer recited by President ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson sparked an unusual religion controversy last week when he recited a prayer in front of Congress ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — On officially accepting his post, newly reelected House Speaker Mike Johnson recited a prayer he attributed to Thomas Jefferson, saying the third president prayed it every day.

Shortly before Mike Johnson was sworn in as House speaker on Friday, he stood in front of the incoming members of Congress and offered what he said was “a prayer for the nation” that was said ...

The Senate’s long-in-the-works border security and Ukraine aid bill still has not been released, but House Speaker Mike Johnson knows he is firmly against it. So against it, in fact, that he’s ...

As Charlie Warzel and Mike Caulfield wrote in the Atlantic ... if lying is a holy act rather than a sin. In this light, Johnson's fake prayer reads less as a mistake and more as a diss to both ...