As we have blogged, the housing allowance tax exemption for ministers of religion has been ruled unconstitutional in a Wisconsin lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Last week, an appeal of that decision was filed with Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The exemption
Professor John McAdams was a tenured political science professor at Marquette University, a Jesuit institution in Milwaukee. He is also a conservative with an outspoken blog entitled the Marquette Warrior (after the university’s former team name that was changed to Golden Eagles out of sensitivity
The California State Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw “the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer” that “includes efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the
A high-level meeting of big donors, Democratic party officials, and politicians came up with three major policy initiatives for the party to pursue: free universal healthcare, free college tuition, and reparations to atone for slavery. Meanwhile, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation to remove marijuana
An article at Aleteia entitled This is How Christians Lived in the 2nd Century by Philip Kosloski put me on to a remarkable document that attempts to explain Christians to citizens of the Roman empire–those strange people who don’t expose their infants but let all
In 1961, the Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was put on trial for his role in orchestrating the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews. Television, such as it was then, covered the trial closely, and accompanied it with some moving documentaries on what happened in concentration camps
A Mennonite pastor has just been released after spending two years in prison–the full term of his sentence–for what the prosecutor scornfully called “acting on his religion.” What was his heinous crime? He helped one of his parishioners, a convert to Christianity who left her
You no doubt heard about the nation-wide school walkouts on March 14 and April 20 to protest gun violence and to demand gun control. Those got lots of press and had the co-operation of school faculties and administrators, who let out classes and encouraged students
Thirty-seven years ago, I stumbled upon an article by Peter Berger, “The Class Struggle in American Religion,” that gave me a new paradigm for understanding my times and that equipped me to resist some of the pressures I was feeling as a newly-minted English professor.
John Daniel Davidson makes a useful distinction between “being moral” and “moralizing.” From his article in The Federalist, Blame the Left for the Rise of Moralizing in America: Dean Acheson, who orchestrated the Marshall Plan and helped create the North Atlantic Treaty Organizaation, had no use
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