Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.
I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.
Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.
It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.
I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I was in college, and I found out at that time the Catholic Church was in such control of everything in communities, including in progressive places like New York - that a roommate of mine was not able to obtain an abortion with his girlfriend, even in places like New York. What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.
Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that seek to respect and protect the rights of all cadets -- not just those adhering to majority religious beliefs.
To me the separation of church and state is a thread that ought to run through public policy so that we can always recognize that we make laws in this country, based not on theology of any particular group, but on the basis of a commonly shared values of the Constitution itself.
I have my romantic moments - for sure.
I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.
We need the dark to appreciate the light. And the light always returns.
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.