Tag: the National Mall
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Enduring Principles in Religious Sacrifice
Reading Time: 5 minutesBack to Frederick Turner ’s essay, “The Mall as a Place of Pilgrimage” (The National Mall: rethinking Washington’s monumental core.” Ed. Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2008). In this post, I want to focus on Turner’s mention of abortion and sacrifice. Both are important to…
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The Current Political Discourse: America’s future
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne sign of our times is the large number of books dealing with America’s political rhetoric. Perhaps the most surprising convergence of opinion concerns the nation’s spiritual life. Sociologist Wayne Baker presents evidence from the World Values Surveys to examine the culture war thesis, currently part of this rhetoric. But in his…