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Halloween Hypocrisy: Should Public Schools Promote Halloween?

This week there will be a Halloween party at my son's public school kindergarten class and then the kids will be joining together in a Halloween parade through town on a school day. But, I'm sure that before celebrating…
Moderation and Religious Violence (Part One)

At some point, we must recognize that the real battlefield in this world is not between Muslims and non-Muslims but between extremists of any stripe and the anti-extremists of all faiths. - Feisal Abdul Rauf, A Call to R…
Why My Catholic Grad School is more Challenging than Public Schools

I have gone to public schools all my life. Yes, that includes elementary, high school and college undergrad. I was fed a steady diet of Roe v. Wade is a civil rights landmark, and "I will not tolerate intolerance" was a…
How To Be Secular In A Secular Age

I am beginning to work on Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. I say 'work' very intentionally because this is a monumental work that will probably be remembered as Taylor's magnum opus. It developed out of his 2007 Gifford…
Greatest Threat: Deism or Atheism?

Though John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to have signed the Declaration of Independence, worked alongside deists such as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and John Adams because he shared the ideal of civil liberty, a…