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- February 6, 2015
Most presidents in American history have integrated religion into their political speeches in what scholars have dubbed civil religion. This has especially been the case in wartime, as war seems to inspire in people a need to know that God is with us. One of the president's roles is to assure the American people that
READ MOREIn 1960 playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee immortalized the Scopes "monkey trial" in their classic drama Inherit the Wind. The play told of the legal battle that took place in Dayton, Tennessee, over the teaching of evolution in public schools. Nearly 80 years after Clarence Darrow put fundamentalist religion on the witness stand
READ MOREIn the Middle East the freedom to practice various faiths is something rare; usually subject to the whims of rulers and clerics. But we are in an era of change. The government of Dubai has encouraged local Christian churches to grow, the Saudi government has dismissed anti-western Muslim clergy, and Iraqi Christians sense hope even
READ MOREOn Tuesday, July 29, 2003, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, there was a "forum to discuss the recent injection of religion into the judicial nominations process." Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the topic and his personal reasons for participating. After he spoke there were several presentations by various religious leaders and fellow senator Richard Durbin.
READ MOREEnds and Means I am greatly dismayed that your response to Mr. Gary Jenson's letter to the editor in the May/June 2002 issue was so restrained and vague. "Rough logic"? Mr. Jenson's logic was fine; it was his suppositions or assumptions that drove his logic that were dangerously flawed. His suggestion that our internment of
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