July/August 2009

Not A Pretty Picture 0
- July/August 2009
- July 1, 2009
What image do you put on the cover of a magazine like Liberty? We do put a lot of thought into what article to feature and what artist to assign the illustration to. Sometimes we aim to startle you a bit. Other times we want the image to resonate with some current issue. And sometimes
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Bleached Faith: When Religion Is Forced Into the Public Square 0
- July/August 2009
- July 1, 2009
A forced faith is no faith at all: for the freedom to believe entails the freedom to doubt. Such is one of the unspoken though no less important lessons implicit in Steven Goldberg’s Bleached Faith: The Tragic Cost When Religion Is Forced Into the Public Square. His is a timely primer on the significance of
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Defaming Religious Freedom 0
- July/August 2009
- July 1, 2009
On Thursday, March 26, the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations passed early in the afternoon the Resolution on Defamation of Religion. There were 23 yes votes, 11 no votes, and 13 abstentions.1 Americans who attend the council are surprised to see the marginal role their country plays in the council. The United
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Changing Views 0
- July/August 2009
- July 1, 2009
During his visit to America in April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI esteemed the model of American church-state relations as a potential schema to follow in Europe.1 He noted that by disallowing state control over religion, religious groups have greater liberty to achieve their spiritual missions. Interestingly, the same train of thought regarding an American model
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Reformation Achieved 0
- July/August 2009
- July 1, 2009
This article is Part Four in a four part series. Click here for Part One, here for Part Two, and here for Part Three. Religious diversity and thus the very concept of religious freedom in the modern United States both derive from the English Reformation, thanks to the English colonization of North America. However,
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