Category Archives: Church & State

Not Quite So Focused on the Constitution Now

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner (under a different title). The US Conference of Catholic Bishops: WASHINGTON—Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, M.Sp.S., auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, welcomed the news today that … Continue reading →

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Bishops for ‘Executive Action’

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

With the US waiting to hear what type of ‘executive action’ Obama will announce with respect to illegal immigrants tomorrow, this item from the National Catholic Reporter is worth noting: In a little noted letter, two bishops chairing committees of … Continue reading →

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Pay-for-pray: Maryland churches promise green sermons for tax break

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Walter Olson

The Washington Post’s reporter, Arelis Hernández, doesn’t seem quite to realize just how outrageous this story is about churches angling for exemptions from a state-mandated stormwater fee in Prince George’s County, Maryland: Thomas and other pastors also have agreed to … Continue reading →

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“A Kind of Hydraulic Effect”

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing in the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin wonders where the Hobby Lobby decision might lead: The great Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that important Supreme Court decisions “exercise a kind of hydraulic effect.” Even if the authors of such decisions … Continue reading →

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God, the EPA and Climate Change Regulation

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

From Climate Progress: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaking to three administrators for the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, David Kepley, an elder and deacon at the Providence Presbyterian Church, quoted Leviticus. “God said ‘the land is mine; with me you are … Continue reading →

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Balkanization Watch

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

It’s difficult not to despair sometimes when confronting some of the excesses of the zero tolerance crowd in the nation’s schools: the toddler sent home for pointing in a way that made his fingers look like a gun, and all … Continue reading →

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Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality (Yet Again)

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Here’s Radio Free Europe with a reminder of how “traditional” values are playing out in today’s Russia: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has awarded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with an order for “glory … Continue reading →

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Town of Greece v. Galloway: Prayer at Town Council Meetings

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Walter Olson

This morning the Supreme Court decided Town of Greece v. Galloway, on a challenge to prayers preceding a town council meeting. Evidence was that the small town of Greece, N.Y., near Rochester, had reached out to all the churches in … Continue reading →

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Orthodoxy, Nationality, Autocracy (Again)

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on Ricochet. Having long lost out in his efforts to woo Russia’s liberals, and increasingly struggling with opposition in Russia’s metropolitan centers, Vladimir Putin has instead being appealing to Russia’s ‘silent majority’. I wrote about this for National Review … Continue reading →

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Satanic Versus

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Joseph Laycock of Religion Dispatches talks here to (and about) “Lucien Greaves”, who is, apparently, the man behind the piece of Satanic kitsch now planned for Oklahoma. Disappointingly, Greaves turns out to be a rather wishy-washy devil worshiper: In 2005, … Continue reading →

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