Today is September 11, Patriot Day, a moment in time that will also live in infamy. On that day nine years ago, religion didn’t matter, race wasn’t an issue and your political party was a moot point.
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First Chaplain death in Afghanistan since Vietnam
Constitution of the United States “The period from the ratification of the treaty of peace [1782] to the adoption of the Constitution [1788-89] has been called the critical period of American history; and the first year of that period was scarcely less critical than the last, the year in which, to use a familiar evangelistic expression, the Constitution was hair-hung and breeze-shaken over the bottomless pit. “It is scarcely to be doubted that at that time [1784] the New Englanders in particular seriously contemplated the dissolution of Congress and the abandonment of the union of the thirteen States.
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Back when the South saved the Union
As you can see, I had another busy month. There are a lot of spiritual gift ideas here, as well as pages on famous people and one quotes page. Interfaith Jewelry – letting all religions coexist A lot of people are worried about the way different religions antagonize one another
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New spiritual pages on squidoo August 2010
If anyone can get people interested in religion, it’s Reverend Pete Owen-Jones, the English vicar whose BBC programs have done for faiths what David Starkey did for history and Michael Palin did for travel – got people watching and talking.
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Creeds of beauty, mystery and darkness
Paul Harvey Earlier we posted an announcement on the conference “Divided by Faith,” a symposium at Indiana Wesleyan University about Michael Emerson’s and Christian Smith’s book of that titl e. Below is the conference schedule; as you will see, blog contributors Philip Luke Sinitiere and Edward J. Blum, and friend of the blog Charles Irons, are among the participants.
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Divided by Faith: Conference Schedule
Location: City University of New York NYC Event Date: 11.17.09 Speakers: Daniel Dennett, John Haught, William P.
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Dan Dennett – Great Issues Forum – What Is Religion 1-8
To understand this post, you need to do something before you continue reading. You need to see the photograph that accompanied this news story when it ran on page one of the Washington Post
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No faith in this immigration story
Several hundred Indonesians rallied in Jakarta on Sunday demanding that the president do more to protect freedom of religion and to punish hardline Muslim groups which have attacked minority faiths.
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Hundreds protest in Jakarta, urge religious freedom
I could be wrong, but I believe Tocqueville was the first to observe how Americans have a bottomless appetite for zoning, siting, and related administrative arcana. We see it still today : Nearly 70 percent of people feel an Islamic center near ground zero is disrespectful, even deliberately provocative, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll. Fantastic! We just can’t get enough — it’s in our blood, or our distinctive national character, something.
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The Compass of Hatred
Editor's Note: This is the last entry in a short, occasional series of guest columns by two local constitutional law experts exploring pertinent issues of the day.
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Proposition 8: Values War in play