National Gay Marriage & Religious Rights
Jon Rowe wonders how a national right to same sex marriage might affect the religious consciences of those who disagree with such.
Author: Jon Rowe
Cosmic Religions
Jon Rowe ponders the cosmic implications of Islam and Mormonism, and their cosmic relationship to Christianity.
Ben Franklin on the Quakers & Lack of Need For Govt. Support of Religion, Etc.
A brief gloss of the complex intellectual and spiritual harmony between the Founders and the Quakers.
Frazer on whether the American Revolution was a “Just War”
A thought on the moral justice of the American Revolution.
Steven K. Green, Next Notable Book in Christian Nation Debate
It’s entitled “Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding”…
Benjamin Rush Believed In Universal Reconcilliation
Benjamin Rush — unlike the “key Founders” (Washington, J. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin) — was identifiably an orthodox Trinitarian Christian. And he seemed to connect his political philosophy to that more traditional form...
Man on the Moon
It was a good movie. I’m not going to link to it; if you want to find it, you can. The problem I have with the movie is that it wasn’t as good as...
This one is for Tony Comstock
I’m gearing up to teaching my “Law And Society” (POL 203 at Mercer County Community College — there are still seats left for those in the Trenton/Princeton vicinity) course for the Spring ’11. We...
Madalyn Murray O’Hair
She was as wildly amusing as some of the religious extremists she debated. When I encounter fervent atheists on this site, I oft-feel like I am dealing with her ghost.
Universal Reconciliation & the Reductio Ad Hitlerum
Over at WorldNetDaily they seem to have a problem with the moderate evangelical best selling book “The Shack” because it’s too…moderate.
John Adams on the French Revolutionary “Christian” Millennial Republicans
They were quite an ecumenical and diverse coalition. Read more about them here.
Have Yourself a Merry Unitarian Christmas
Numerous articles and blogs have noted the strong case to doubt Christmas’ authentically “Christian” origins. Christ probably wasn’t born on Dec. 25. The Puritans banned the holiday because it wasn’t authentically Christian. And many...
Will “History” Ever End?
That’s the title of my latest guest post at Dispatches From The Culture Wars. I reproduce part of it below if interested in discussing it here: Writing in TNR, Mark Lilla informs that intellectuals...
Heads Up
I’ll be guest blogging at Ed Brayton’s Dispatches From the Culture Wars from Dec. 19-27. My grades (for 21 credits) are due Tuesday morning, so I’m not sure how much blogging I will do...
