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  • Faith Talk0

    The election of 2008 promises to be a historic one for a number of reasons. The campaign itself has set a record of sorts by starting so early. The candidates have generally raised historically high amounts of money for their war chests—and they are already spending like there is no tomorrow. Since there is no

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  • The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege0

    The theme of this book is the rise of public religiosity that has been orchestrated by a small group of "theoconservative" intellectuals. It is Mr. Linker's contention that Roman Catholicism has provided Republicans with a nondenominational language and morality with universal appeal. He foresees the end of separation of church and state and of secular

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  • The Right to Freedom of Expression0

    According to United States District Court Judge Norman Mordue, the Liverpool Central School District in Upstate, New York, violated fourth grader Michaela Blood Good's constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection by refusing to let her distribute "personal statement" flyers conveying a Christian message. Judge Mordue affirmed that "fear or apprehension of disturbance .

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  • The Revolutionary0

    Scholars have long argued the extent of Luther's influence on the outbreak of revolution among the German peasants in 1524-1525. Those who would give him significant blame for it point to his intemperate remarks against institutional authority of the day, his arguments for spiritual equality, and his elevation of the individual conscience over spiritual and

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  • The Devils and Religious Expression0

    Cathy Raddi is a live-and-let-live kind of woman. Shy, she doesn't like to make waves. She's a turn-the-other-cheek Christian. After all, that's what her Lord tells her to do. So when the Village of South Orange, New Jersey, said that her Care and Share Ministry couldn't perform on public property because of the religious content

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  • Obedience to a Higher Law0

    Over the years in our struggle for liberation in South Africa we learned one very important lesson, and that is that when people of different races and cultures or ethnic backgrounds are kept apart and there is no communication or interaction among them, it results in: 1. prejudices against one another based on myths that

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