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Transcending the Blame Game 0
- March/April 2022
- March 1, 2022
Perspective Fact-blindness, unreasoning partisanship, and a fast-growing deficit of compassion. Can people of faith help forge a path through our current political morass? Illustration by Jon Krause More than 100,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses in a 12-month period,1 overall life expectancy is falling,2 and our immigration system is, by all accounts, a catastrophe.
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Built on Faith: The Bible and the American Republic 0
- March/April 2022
- March 1, 2022
INTERVIEW A new museum in the birthplace of American democracy highlights a neglected history It’s a high-tech, $60 million, twenty-first-century museum devoted to values extracted from an ancient book. The American Bible Society’s Faith and Liberty Discovery Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, opened in May 2021 and sits in the middle of America’s “most historic square
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Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee 0
- March/April 2022
- March 1, 2022
In July 1798 President John Adams was making his way with great pomp and ceremony from the then capital, Philadelphia, to his summer retreat in Massachusetts. As his carriage passed through the town of Newark, New Jersey, the president was welcomed with speeches, a parade, and a ceremonial 16-cannon salute. Luther Baldwin, a skipper of
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A Battle Never Won 0
- March/April 2022
- March 1, 2022
Book Review: Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, by Jacob Mchangama. New York: Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2022. It is axiomatic that an idea established by silencing every voice of opposition is inevitably on the wrong side of history. In his book Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media author
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