Dreading the Thanksgiving-dinner arguments on religion and politics? Resistance is futile. Just accept the inevitable and start them yourself.
Slate provides some ideas here for dinner-table disagreements on politics. As for religion, First Things has dished up some ideas sure to spark lively discussion. How about the question of whether Islam is compatible with the separation of church and state? Or whether East and West , the two lungs of the Church, can ever be reconciled? Conversation slow? Ask the table whether they think Mormonism is Christian. How ‘bout that Lambeth conference, or that book Rowan Williams just wrote? Or, is the Catholic Church, in opposing contraception, sterilization, and abortion, perpetuating overpopulation ? This is bound to liven things up: Is Protestant America dead?
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