The governor of Louisiana just signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools. There are two problems with this. The first and most obvious is that the Constitution ...
The state of Louisiana recently passed a law to go into effect in 2025 requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms (“New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to ...
(UNDATED) Like most Americans, I like monuments. They’re big, they’re solid and they last. Mount Rushmore is ridiculously massive, but it is spectacularly American and looks great on a postcard. But ...
The Ten Commandments were handed to Moses on Mount Sinai sometime around the 13th century B.C. Texas Republicans want them on the walls of our public schools in 2025. This summer, Gov. Greg Abbott ...
Louisiana’s new law requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in every classroom in the state is interesting on many fronts. It was passed by a Republican state legislature and signed by Republican Gov ...
The Utah Legislature has passed an unconscionable law encouraging that the Ten Commandments be studied in public schools. The measure says that the commandments should be added “to a list of ...
The standoff over the Ten Commandments illustrates two extremes in the ongoing battle to define America. On one side are Judge Moore and his allies, who want to turn the Constitution into a religious ...
Why is it that people who claim not to take God seriously in their own lives insist on taking Him so seriously for the rest of us? A few years ago, city officials in Bloomfield, N.M., agreed to set ...
I’ll start my thought on Shav’uot with a bit of “Adult Education” and then to a thought that addresses the inner life. “Decalogue” in Exodus 34:28 came into English as “ten verses” in the Tyndale ...
On the kitchen wall in the house where I grew up my parents hung a photograph of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the famous Carmelite nun from France who lived only 24 years, from 1873 to 1897, and yet became ...
Texas is bound by the U.S. Constitution, which was not judicially created by law. That’s why I have a problem when judges create law rather than legislators. There are three branches of government at ...