March/April 2012

Crowd Control 0
- March/April 2012
- March 1, 2012
Then Chuck and Stephanie Fromm began having people over for Bible studies, the last thing on their minds was the possibility of being cited and fined by the city they lived in, but that’s exactly what happened. As residents of San Juan Capistrano, California, they are hardly new in town. They moved into the city
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When Faith and Tradition Are Threatened 0
- March/April 2012
- March 1, 2012
Muslims and Jews in Holland and in California united in 2011 in opposing political attacks on their joint religious traditions of circumcision, and their religious ways of killing animals for use as food. Several Christian groups, concerned that secular and humanistic political values were being used to coerce religious expression, also joined the protest. In
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Full Court Win in Tabor 0
- March/April 2012
- March 1, 2012
On January 11, 2012, the Supreme Court delivered a historic reaffirmation of the First Amendment guarantee of &”free exercise&” of religion and ban on religious establishments. The Court’s clarity in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC is signaled by the clear and unanimous decision. The decision shields churches and other religious organizations from discrimination lawsuits by ministerial employees,
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Americans are increasingly concentrated at opposite ends of the religious spectrum—the highly religious at one pole, and the avowedly secular at the other. The moderate religious middle is shrinking.&” So say professors Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell in American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, a comprehensive and evenhanded account of American

Merely Tolerable 0

Thomas Jefferson, in an unsent letter from Monticello, dated September 27, 1809, to a James Fishback that addressed his own views on the proper roles of church and state, provided a rather extraordinary response line. He passionately observed that &”among the Mahometans we are told that thousands fell victims to the dispute whether the first

Christians and Civil Disobedience 0

Houston Baptist University scholar/educator Louis Markos, writing in From Achilles to Christ (InterVarsity Press), gives the example of Sophocles’ play Antigone as an affirmation there is a higher, universal, immortal law written in humanity’s heart, mind, and conscience. In Antigone Creon, the governor of the state, has commanded that no one may bury his nephew,

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