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Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? Does it Matter?

By Andrew Porwancher

…that Hamilton waged alongside fellow patriots—both Gentile and Jew—the new republic confronted a momentous question: Would the radical promise of equality enshrined in the Declaration of Independence now translate into democratic realities? A number of politicians sought to withhold the prerogatives of citizenship from Jews, from the courthouse to the ballot box. Against these forces of antisemitism, Alexander Hamilton sought to build an America w…

Reporting from Paris During COP21: A Haunted Sabbath

By Donna Schaper

…ies asking us to pay for their abuse of each other and the earth.” The New Republic once again put out its superb daily report, showing that coalitions were indeed developing between nations around their carbon goals. GreenFaith did its daily broadcast, once again targeting the bad guy of Saudi Arabia and wondering how they had spent their Sunday. They did not appear to have a brunch invitation. I walked by a totally dark Chinese embassy, which, n…

Historian John Ragosta Discusses the Context and Inspiration for ‘Religious Freedom’ in the U.S.

By Frederick Clarkson

…without freedom to think and believe, you could not have the other two. A republic could not work if government and church officials (what Jefferson referred to as an alliance of “kings, nobles, and priests”) were trying to control what we think or prescribe what was the “best” religion or which people were the “best” citizens based upon their religious beliefs. If people were to make informed political choices themselves, they had to be free to…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nti-LGBT social conservatives is being held in Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia, this week. The event is likely to have a pro-Putin and anti-European feel, given that many WCF groups have praised the anti-gay policies of Russia under Putin. The WCF website has featured a quote from local sponsor Levan Vasadze saying, “The West is attacking our Christian culture with atheism, new forms of socialism and sexual radicalism – worse than…

The Heresy of Compromise

By Peter Manseau

…the first modern pope” had to say amounted to nodding approval (“That your Republic is progressing and developing by giant strides is patent to all…”), which at times seemed to take credit for the success it praised. In a rhetorical flourish, the pope even laid claim to the nation’s neonatal survival: “When America was, as yet, but a newborn babe, uttering in its cradle its first feeble cries, the Church took it to her bosom and motherly embrace.”…

Does Biden’s Inauguration Signal a ‘Third Reconstruction’?

By John Stoehr

…ther words, their interests fused—to create the biggest coalition in the history of presidential elections to defeat Trump and, consequently, save the American republic. Will that lead to a Third Reconstruction? Let’s just say there’s now reason to hope….

Václav Havel: Democracy as Spiritual Discipline

By Peter Montgomery

…le still sitting president, and before Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Havel bared his mind, heart, and soul in a remarkable collection of essays written in the summer of 1991 and published in English by Knopf the following year as Summer Meditations. In contrast to Hitchens’ pyrotechnic polemics, these essays are imbued with a quiet conviction that politics should be a high moral calling. Twenty years later, Havel’s m…

Family Research Council’s Restoration Of “Christian” Morality

By Sarah Posner

…tion. In his speech, Perkins issued a threat not just to Democrats, but to Republicans as well. “It’s absolutely essential that we send a message to Washington and the rest of the liberal establishment that we are not going anywhere,” a warning, no doubt against a developing theme that the tea party movement has somehow displaced the religious right. “Once we replace these politicians who ignore the people and the Constitution, then we must repeal…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…camp and ceremony knew what meaning war gave them in the reunited American republic. Narratives of destruction which fascinated Americans during the war itself had turned to parables of triumph. But it was a particular form of triumph that allowed the heroes of Gettysburg, North and South, to cry together, USA! USA! Americans cried that together during the great national reconciliation of the Spanish-American War, when, as the press widely reporte…

Bush’s Favorite Catholic Departs The Scene

By Peter Laarman

…d—very sadly—Bayard Rustin in his older age) were able to unleash upon the Republic and the world. Neuhaus himself became centrally involved in the formation of the Institute for Religion and Democracy, a kind of infernal machine that was programmed to tamp down or stamp out liberationist voices within mainline Protestantism. As a progressive mainline Protestant myself, I know firsthand how hugely successful this operation has been. Neuhaus also s…