The traditional religious right’s failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
– Jon Meacham –
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if one’s sexuality is as
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if one’s sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one’s identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
– Jon Meacham –
A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China.
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt –
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt – an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there’s a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it’s really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
– Jon Meacham –
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if one’s sexuality is as
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if one’s sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one’s identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
– Jon Meacham –
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
– Jon Meacham –