In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Miles Smith IV
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In the aftermath of last month’s church-school shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, public figures offered thoughts and prayers. The ensuing debate—now perennial, it seems—proceeded down well-worn dialectical paths. Religious conservatives defended the public place of prayer as a response to tragedy, while religious progressives and secularists argued that prayer wasn’t enough. Jacob Frey,…
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In an important essay at Fusion last week, John G. Grove addresses religious politics or perhaps more accurately, the potential politicization of religion in the United States. Evangelical author Nancy Pearcey, Grove notes, “tweeted out an appeal for pastors to be more political. Those who do not preach politics, she argued, offer ‘a privatized Christianity.’” At a…
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In his 1939 review of Carl Sandburg’s venerable biography of Abraham Lincoln, Max Lerner wrote in The New Republic that “Sandburg has the reporter’s passion for concreteness. We always learn the exact numbers of everything, the exact look of everyone who enters the story. There is something even a bit frightening about the detail.” Lerner…