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  • Do Unto Others0

    Is it not strange that the descendents of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?   General Robert E. Lee in a letter to his wife, December 1856.

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  • Free Will, Predestination, and Religious Liberty0

    Listening to leaders of the Religious Right in the United States, one might well conclude that Christian dominance of civil government is a biblical command. But a careful review of both Scripture and church history soon reveals that, like a number of beliefs and practices in conservative Christian circles, this one entered Christian theology some

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  • Integral History0

    Not the catchiest of titles, but I use it for a reason. The historian Will Durant spent nearly 50 years writing The Story of Civilization. It put him in the company of such ambitious personal historians as Edward Gibbon and Winston Churchill. Like Churchill, Durant was able to stamp history with a well-reasoned, narrative style.

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  • A Mosque Too Close?0

    The controversy over the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York City in some ways demonstrates a failure of leadership. But before we identify those failures, let us review the situation more broadly. Muslims are currently worshipping at a building that formerly housed a coat manufacturer. The facility is a couple of long blocks away

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  • Lawful, But Not Helpful0

    As of this writing anyway—though the so-called &”Ground Zero&” mosque controversy is still  unresolved—at least the Gainesville, Florida, pastor who threatened to burn the Koran as a public protest against the mosque has backed off.   No Koran burnings by Christian clergy, at least for now. However much as many Americans could understand his frustration,

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  • The Christian Persecutory Impulse0

    There are many different forms of relgious intolernace, and, over the centuries, many faiths have persecuted. In the Western context, however, it is the persecution of Christians, by Christians, especially in the two centuries after the Reformation, that is most important, because it still shapes relationships between peoples of different faiths and confessions today. Yet

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