Now, what’s the meaning of the season, again?
Ahh, the Christmas cards. As early as last week, they began arriving in droves, wrapped in brightly colored envelopes and embellished with gold and glitter. Almost all of them featured a photo of the sending family on the cover. I never thought much of it until today, when a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christianity’
A British View of American Christianity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, Religion, Study Abroad on March 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Dollars bills announce ‘In God We Trust’. But, just in case, we’ve got the Federal Reserve and the biggest GDP and army on the planet.” – Simon Barrow
It is with great interest that I get to spend a few months on the outside of my own country looking in. Editorials in European newspapers about the [...]
Separation of Church and State
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, Government, Religion on February 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“Enforcing a strict separation between church and state curtails religious freedom and deprives state-funded social programs of a ’spiritual dimension,’ a top aid to President Bush told an audience of Vatican officials.” – Religious News Service (read for Religion, Media and Society class)
Granted, I could probably argue in favor of this but I’d rather [...]