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Obedience to a Higher Law 0
- July/August 2007
- July 1, 2007
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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The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege 0
- July/August 2007
- July 1, 2007
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 Revolutionary 0
- July/August 2007
- July 1, 2007
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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Freedom Challenge 0
- July/August 2007
- July 1, 2007
When our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they designed a government that, at the time, was a unique government. Since that time, it has served as an example for nations across the globe. This new government set a definite boundary line of jurisdiction which the government itself was not to cross. However, over the course
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The Scripturally Informed Conscience 0
- May/June 2007
- May 1, 2007
The road from the Protestant Reformation to the religious freedom of the American republic was full of unexpected turns, switchbacks, and delays. The ambiguities, tensions, and paradoxes within church/state thought are seen starkly at the second Diet of Speyer in 1529—the event which birthed the term "Protestant." The Diet, or gathering of German nobility, was
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Avoiding Misguided Metaphors 0
- May/June 2007
- May 1, 2007
Even when the U.S. Supreme Court reaches the right result in a matter involving church-state relations, the justices too often do so for the wrong reasons. Cutter v. Wilkinson is illustrative. Handed down in May of 2005, Cutter reversed a lower court that had struck down as unconstitutional the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons
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