Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course
Could a course prevent public schools from becoming battlefields?
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R.I. Christians Tweet Atheist Intolerance Like it’s 1663
‘You are a heathen with a place reserved for you in hell. Christ is risen! HALLELUJAH! Amen.’
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Evangelical Pastor Tests First Amendment Waters
The notorious Alliance Defense Fund, which seeks to abrogate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, has recruited an evangelical minister to endorse a candidate for governor from the pulpit in hopes of taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Such advocacy, of course, violates the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization from making political endorsements.
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Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates: The Problem with Popularization
While the history of popularization is a history of regular folk learning about other regular revolutionizing folk and imitating them, comic book histories like The Wordy Shipmates do their part in ensuring that the next generation knows more about Beyoncé than Byzantium.
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