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A Lady of the Lake 0
- January/February 2018
- January 1, 2018
1871, The Atlantic Ocean: A determined Fréderic Auguste Bartholdi stares out at the vast Atlantic Ocean. He strokes his beard as the high seas wind blows through his hair. Paris lies behind him, and the ocean steamer slices through the steel-gray waters bound for the eastern shores of America. The challenging maritime passage will take
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Denial of Equal Rights to Religious Minorities and Nonbelievers in the United States 0
- January/February 2018
- January 1, 2018
Once Upon a Time [Editorial Note.—This is the first installment of an article that appeared in the Yale Law Journal of March 1930, which clearly shows the diversity of law and the conflict of judicial opinion on the subject of religious legislation and the rights of minority sects before the law. The next issue will
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The Johnson Amendment and the First Amendment – A No-nonsense Protection 0
- January/February 2018
- January 1, 2018
The new administration’s effort to “totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment is a colossally bad idea: one that compromises the First Amendment. The Johnson Amendment, passed by Congress in 1954 and named for Lyndon Johnson, then a U.S. senator, is a provision in the tax code that prohibits tax-exempt organizations from openly supporting political candidates. In
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Filters – Lessons from the clerk, the baker, and the memory maker.0
- January/February 2018
- January 1, 2018
On issues of public morality many might identify with the opening words of Charles Dickens’ tome A Tale of Two Cities. They look around at what’s happening in society, in the government, and in their community during the past decade and say with a sigh, “It was the best of times, it was the worst
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Future Shock 0
- November/December 2017
- November 1, 2017
The cover illustration says it all. A simple monk on a mission. Ninety-five theses, or discussion points, in hand. About to nail them to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany. Above him hovers the ominous gargoyle threat that so characterized cathedrals and churches of that era five centuries ago.As the poet William Butler
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The Protestant Reformation and Freedom of Conscience 0
- November/December 2017
- November 1, 2017
This year we celebrate 500 years of the Protestant Reformation. On October 31, 1517, the then Augustinian monk, priest, and teacher Martin Luther nailed, at the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, a document with 95 theses on salvation, that is, basically, the way people are led by the Christian God to heaven. Luther
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