November/December 2009

Gods and Generals 0
- November/December 2009
- November 1, 2009
Old World/New World disparity can be as different as treasured paintings on a crumbling church wall in Florence, Italy, and bulldozers leveling yet another graffiti-festooned 1970’s-era inner-city project in some big U.S. city. The Old World/New World split this magazine often deals with is one of escape: a spectrum of immigrants—refugees—fleeing religious intolerance and warfare.
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Faith, Freedom, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor 0
- November/December 2009
- November 1, 2009
Ever since President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court, the chattering classes have speculated endlessly regarding the impact she might have on the future of American jurisprudence.1 She would bring wide-ranging experiences to the Court: prosecutor, civil litigator, federal trial judge, federal appellate judge, law school instructor, and Hispanic woman.2
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A Clash of Millennialisms on Capitol Hill 0
- November/December 2009
- November 1, 2009
The Christian lobby came to Capitol Hill in a big way in 1888. And that meant that the nation’s lawmakers were certain to hear from the &”counter-lobby&” spearheaded by the American Sentinel magazine as well. (The Sentinel was the precursor to Liberty magazine.) As discussed in part 1 of this series, the main purpose of
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Thursday morning, July 30: The mainstream media and punditocracy continued to obsess over &”Gatesgate&” and that evening’s impending &”Beer Summit&” on the White House lawn. Meanwhile, in a barely reported story, U.S. district court judge Ellen Segal Huvelle finally ran out of patience with the U.S. Department of Justice over a human rights violation, compared

The Victims of Religious Intolerance 0

Nations, factions, political groups, and even families go to war with each other to satisfy things like their greed, their pride, and their jealousy. They let their anger loose in hopes of power. In religious conflicts there is little difference; there is, of course, that extra goad of martyrdom and a sense of God’s reward

Decoupling for Freedom 0

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind—each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others. Often, the leaders and practitioners of absolutist religions were unable

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