Someone asked me recently about my views on church and state. I replied that I advocate a “Christendom model” of church-state relations. Then I proceeded to qualify. When I was done qualifying, I suddenly wondered whether what I call “Christendom” corresponds to what other people understand by the word. It seems a useful exercise to discriminate what Christendom gets right and what it gets wrong. One of the sources of ambiguity is that Christendom can be used both to describe… Read more












