I highly recommend Tim Lacy’s recent review of George Cotkin’s Morality’s Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America. As someone who has been wrestling for some time now with the question of the relationship between moral philosophy and history, I...
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If the Constitution is Sacred, Why Read the Short Version?
As many of you already know, the 112th Congress opened on January 6, 2011 with a public reading of the United States Constitution. Well, sort of. The members of the House of Representatives responsible for this reading decided that they...
Glenn Beck’s Black Robe Brigade and the Plight of the Local Pastor
During Glenn Beck’s August 28 rally at the Lincoln Memorial he introduced a group of 240 pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams that he calls the “Black Robe Brigade.” (Despite the promotion of this group as ecumenical, I think most of...
The Texas Social Studies Standards Debacle
The Texas State Board of Education worked late into the evening yesterday hammering out the state’s new social studies curriculum standards. Dan Quinn from the Texas Freedom Network continues to do yeoman’s work for all of us by live-blogging the...