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The Power of Conversation 0
- July/August 2023
- July 1, 2023
Ground zero for religious liberty conflict in America today is the ongoing clash between religious freedom rights and LGBT rights—in the courts, in the media, and in our social media feeds. For a growing number of Americans, “religious freedom” has become merely code for bigotry. From this perspective, those who seek religious exemptions from anti-discrimination
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First, Define Your Terms 0
- July/August 2023
- July 1, 2023
Two significant, and not unrelated, news stories broke in June. Pat Robertson, a religious and cultural juggernaut for the past five decades, died at 93. And a state charter school board in Oklahoma approved the nation’s first religious charter school. Taking the Oklahoma story first, consider these two facts. Under Oklahoma law, all charter schools
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Thou Shalt Not Lie 0
- July/August 2023
- July 1, 2023
The myth of the Ten Commandments Asked to name the Ten Commandments in a 2006 appearance on “The Colbert Report,” Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, co-sponsor of a bill that would have required the Ten Commandments to be displayed in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, responded: “Ummmm. Don’t murder. Don’t lie. Don’t steal.
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On the Madness of Crowds 0
- May/June 2023
- May 1, 2023
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”—Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841). Once upon a time the suggestion that employers should seek commonsense ways to accommodate people
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