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This rectangular design centers on a painting of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson around a table by a window. Franklin reads from a large sheet of paper. Adams, seated in the middle, listens to him. Jefferson stands next to the table with a quill and another large piece of paper, also listening. The words across upper part of the painting say, “WE’VE JUST CREATED THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.” Below the three men, it continues, “IT’S SO SIMPLE, EVEN A CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND IT, RIGHT?” Under the painting, it says, “Many thanks to Imgflip and Marshal Tenner Winter for this image.”
Freedom of Religion

Freedom of Religion

Is the First Amendment an aspiration, or reality? Freedom of Religion: do we really have it? During our passage from Juneteenth to the Fourth of July this year, I’ve been thinking a lot about the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights. And especially the specific freedoms it enshrines. The “Defund or Abolish the Police” movement has driven me (along with many others) to take some long, hard looks at the institution of policing, its history, and what it could become, if remade in a…

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This image of a flag with the words "remembering 9/11" calls us to get some perspective on 9/11.
Perspective on 9/11

Perspective on 9/11

Where were you on 9/11? Nearly everyone who lived through it remembers that day. It marked us as a country, and it has affected those too young to personally remember (some of whom are now serving in Afghanistan). It changed life in American in several important ways. But, eighteen years out, it’s possible to get a new perspective on 9/11. Comparisons with Pearl Harbor In some ways, as others have pointed out, it was another generation’s Pearl Harbor. The Dec. 7, 1941 attack by the Japanese on…

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