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Religious Liberty and Democratic Faith
Winter 2001-2002
In 1952, Harpers published a book by J. Paul Williams: What Americans Believe and How They Worship. Tucked away in the relative obscurity of the final chapter of this book is one of the most provocative contributions to the discussion of religious freedom in this country. It is provocative because Prof. Williams advocates in effect the establishment of a state religion with coercive sanctions here in America. He proposes that "governmental agencies must teach the democratic ideal as religion."
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Strength Through Weakness: Matthew 25:31-40
Fall 1996
By imprinting on humankind the image of his own likeness, God gave us some faint resemblance of that self-determining power by which he creates the world. It is precisely this that is heavenly in us, and it is this that is satanic.