By What Authority?0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2013

Since the emergence of the Religious Right on the American political scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, cooperation between Protestants and Catholics for political purposes has been both open and active. Such religio-political alliances have existed before, of course, in the context of liberal causes (e.g., civil rights, the Vietnam War). The corporate

By What Authority?0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

There is a great principle at the heart of the movement to strike the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance—and from our national customs, our currency, and our public ceremonies. It has very little to do with atheism. It has a great deal to do with authoritarianism. The philosophy behind America's founding is

Indespensable Supports0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

Evolution and Intelligent Design0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

According to InterVarsity Press, "The intelligent design theory has become the center of a growing controversy among state boards of education around the country as school board members and parents ask their local school boards to allow intelligent design to be taught in their science classrooms." Intelligent design is a truth-claim about the origin of

Buy the Right Kind of Democracy0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

There are more kinds of democracy than kinds of compact cars." The weary citizen, belabored by political oratory and bewildered by news analysts, retreats in confusion to the comparative sim_plicity of automobile ads, time payments, and keeping up with the Joneses. Democracy, like cars, comes with all kinds of sur_face trappings. It comes in Cuba

Teach Us to Pray0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

The increasing attempts by many "good people" to Christianize the United States by law rather than by evangelism has even reached the Supreme Court. The gospel commission given by Jesus is "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations," not "Go ye therefore, and compel all nations!" Even though we see what religion in government can