Texas Faith is an ongoing, online conversation among some of the state's religious leaders and readers who want to speak up about how faith affects our lives. Your hosts include Dallas Morning News staffers William McKenzie, Jeffrey Weiss, Wayne Slater and Rod Dreher.

Every week we will pose a timely question to our panel of experts, post their replies, and invite readers to offer their own comments. Topics will range from politics to ethics to the hot news of the week. We hope this feature will help us all to think through the interesting and complex intersections of religion, politics and culture.