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Evangelical Minds

Church, State, and the Founding of America

Plus: Studying pagans, humanities vs. religion, and more.

Hunter Baker | posted 9/27/2007 10:50AM

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I can't help but wonder to whom exactly Kronman is referring when he refers to "the fundamentalists." I also wonder why he is so certain religious answers are unlikely to be correct. Grist for a later column from the professor, maybe. If Louis Markos is right, the homeschoolers will keep the fire of the humanities lit until the secular university is ready to rediscover them.

More News

Author of the Wren Cross controversy steps back from presidential duties at William and Mary. (Campus Magazine)

Tom DeLay speaking engagement at Seton Hall quashed. (The Corner at National Review)

Erwin Chemerinsky not too liberal to be law school dean at UC-Irvine, after all. (LA Times)

New wave of distinctively Catholic colleges on the rise. (Inside Higher Ed)

Hunter Baker is special assistant to the president and director of strategic planning at Houston Baptist University. Got a tip regarding academic research or higher education? E-mail him at hunterbaker@gmail.com

Related Elsewhere:

Previous Evangelical Minds columns include:

Christian Smith on Why Christianity 'Works' | Plus: Baylor publishing woes, and other news from the higher education world. (September 13, 2007)

David Dockery on Christian Higher Ed's Key Challenges | Plus: Fearing secularization and "fundamentalization" and whether "Christian economics" exist. (August 30, 2007)

Why College Doesn't Turn Kids Secular | Also: Richard Land on the footbath controversy, Falwell's big Liberty gift, and other stories about higher education and research. (August 16, 2007)

Christian Higher Education Goes to Russia | Plus: One more argument against U.S. News rankings, and Silver Ring Thing goes to Harvard. (August 2, 2007)

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Chaplain Mary Murphy

Posted: October 04, 2007 12:43 PM


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Anonymous

Posted: September 29, 2007 4:25 AM

If there was such a quandary about whether this was supposed to be a nation for any or no religion what does article 11 in the treaty with Tripoli mean? It was ratified by the United States senate and signed by president Adams. It states...ver batim: ARTICLE 11. As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Christy Tucker

Posted: September 28, 2007 1:08 AM


I am a Christian but the Bill of Rights gives us the choice of Religion. Also we should keep Religion separate from politics.

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