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Obama Changes Course on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…ions, arguing that “Several recent incidences of violent extremists in the United States who are committed to fighting here and abroad have underscored the threat to the United States and our interests posed by individuals radicalized at home. Our best defenses against this threat are well informed and equipped families, local communities, and institutions.” This statement comes under the heading of countering radicalization. While I have no doubt…

A High Wall, A Sacred Canopy, A Conversation

By Linell Cady

…ury. Although the separation of church and state has been a feature of the United States since its founding, the principle initially applied to the federal level and was more narrowly focused on institutions. By the mid-twentieth century its application had expanded considerably, and it was invoked to legitimate a broadly encompassing separation of religion from a secularized public life. This shift was most directly attributable to a series of Su…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…realized that complete separation of church and state was the best way to promote true religion. Our original national motto speaks to the way that our religious, ethnic and racial diversity is a source of greatness: E Pluribus Unum–out of many, one. This is nowhere more true than in religion. Jefferson once explained that the normal rule in politics was reversed when talking about religion; for religion, “divided we stand, united we fall.” Our d…

The Heresy of Compromise

By Peter Manseau

…America, dissevered and divorced.” Though the Church had prospered in the United States, he lamented, it would be better off if it “enjoyed the favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority.” The notion that non-establishment might truly be in the best interest of both sides of the church/state divide was a core tenet of the Americanist heresy. The accused bishops for the most part denied they were guilty of any offense, and in time…

Liberal Christians Come Out Swinging at Trump, Mostly

By Daniel Schultz

…nation and I’ve known John Dorhauer, President and General Minister of the United Church of Christ, for a long time. But Dorhauer posted what I thought was perhaps the strongest response to Trump’s election so far: Because this election sharply separated us over matters of race, gender, human sexuality, faith, economic inequality and political persuasions we all bear a heavy burden moving forward. It is our call, our shared mission, to heed the ca…

Honey, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…state shrinks right up to nothing when liability lurks. In early 2014, the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which monitors implementation of that Convention, questioned Vatican officials about sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic clergy and its systematic cover-up by church officials. Former sex crimes prosecutor for the Church, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, in watershed testimony, admitted that the Vatican bore some respo…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…lag sacramentally contains the land, people, government, and spirit of the United States.” I don’t understand that any better than the claim about fertility rites, nor can I claim to grasp the meaning of Justice Byron White’s statement that “The flag is itself a monument [akin to the Lincoln Memorial], subject to similar protection.” I’m likewise baffled by the citizen quoted in a Time magazine article from 1970, quoted in turn by Gardella, who sa…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…technical talks are over and the political ones are about to begin. Saudi Arabia seems to be everybody’s favorite bad guy at the moment. France, China, the United States seem to be in favor. And people are looking for a place beyond the lines, outside the reach of the police, to express themselves. The weekend has been called “A TIME OF GLOBAL REFLECTION ON CLIMATE DISRUPTION.” Time to pray, while waiting. Time to meditate, while waiting. Time to…

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

By Eric C. Miller

…a of the West as a “Judeo-Christian civilization” comes primarily from the United States, although important Christian conservatives from continental Europe also subscribed to it. It was fundamentally an anti-totalitarian idea: both Communism and Nazism were seen as threats to the religious values on which the West was understood to be built. In this way, the idea of Judeo-Christian civilization became an anti-Communist ideology during the Cold Wa…

State as Executioner: Rick Perry Did Not Invent the Death Penalty

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y? My Greek friends’ incredulity about the face of judicial killing in the United States was based primarily on history. Greece languished under a military junta in the Cold War years and suffered all the totalitarian grotesqueries and social trauma we know as the plight of “the disappeared.” This was after an almost theatrically brutal German occupation in the Second World War (1 million died of famine in the first winter, countless more in repri…