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Pornocracy and the Limits of Legal Limits – Religion & Liberty Online
The human degradation that is part and parcel of pornography should make for a compelling legal case to ban it. But so long as it’s seen as a form of speech, there’s little hope in that. But where there’s a will, there’s a way. Read More… It’s…
A Very British America – Religion & Liberty Online
A new book seeks to recapture the distinctly Anglican—and British—contribution to the life of the American Republic: a vision of ordered liberty. Read More… In the popular imagination, at least, the American Revolution has become synonymous with…
A Very British America – Religion & Liberty Online
A new book seeks to recapture the distinctly Anglican—and British—contribution to the life of the American Republic: a vision of ordered liberty. Read More… In the popular imagination, at least, the American Revolution has become synonymous with…
The Science of God, the God of Science – Religion & Liberty Online
Philosophy, Aristotle observed, begins in wonder. Too often today, however, philosophy begins in arid formulas that look more like math equations than like curiosity about the great questions of life—“Does God exist?” or “Is there an ultimate…
The Science of God, the God of Science – Religion & Liberty Online
Philosophy, Aristotle observed, begins in wonder. Too often today, however, philosophy begins in arid formulas that look more like math equations than like curiosity about the great questions of life—“Does God exist?” or “Is there an ultimate…
His Stylus Was Mightier Than His Sword – Religion & Liberty Online
Sometime in the late 340s B.C. in Athens, a feud between two powerful men, Apollodoros and Stephanos, culminated in the last of a series of lawsuits that the two had been bringing against each other for the better part of a decade. On one…
The Church Needs to Rethink Alcohol Use and Abuse – Religion & Liberty Online
In Freely Sober: Rethinking Alcohol Through the Lens of Faith, Ericka Andersen has written a book for people like her: evangelical Christian women struggling in secret with a dysfunctional relationship to alcohol. Why read this when I could read…
Out of Africa – Religion & Liberty Online
Quite a number of years ago, it was estimated that every year there are some 500 articles and monographs, both popular and scholarly, written throughout the world on the North African pastor-theologian-saint Augustine (354‒430). At the time when…
Is America Simply Jefferson vs. Hamilton? – Religion & Liberty Online
Herbert Butterfield in his The Whig Interpretation of History argued that assessing the past in light of the present, what we call “presentism,” is the source of all historical errors. Our tendency to do so results from a very real problem: How…
A Book That Will Shock You – Religion & Liberty Online
Dr. Michael Pakaluk, a philosopher and professor at the Catholic University of America, has written 11 books, but somehow this was the first to make it into my hands. Pakaluk is a bit of a legend in certain circles. He maintains a scholarly…