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A Nonsectarian Version of the Ten Commandments
Over the past two years, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas passed laws requiring posters of the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. Predictably, critics argue that even...
A Sacred Right
Religious Liberty in Crisis:Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty by ken starrnencounter, 234 pages, $26.99 For many of America’s founders, the right to religious liberty had a biblical...
The Myth of America’s Religious Founding
Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green Oxford, 312 pages, $29.95 Many Americans have embraced one of two myths concerning the role...
