“The myth of religious violence” Karen Armstrong @guardian HT @BrianMcLaren

Karen Armstrong is one smart, articulate sociological historian.  We need to listen to her. We now take the secular state so much for granted that it is hard for us to appreciate its novelty, since before the modern period, there were no “secular” institutions and no “secular” states in our sense of the word. Their creation required the development of Continue Reading

A Christian School’s Commitment to Free Enterprise?

Colorado Christian University president U.S. Sen. William Armstrong, R-Colo. has some telling things to say about the way so many nationalistic Christians are unable to identify how allegiances to systems may clash,  especially where it concerns American systems that have become so heretically synonymous with the Kingdom of God.  Armstrong fired Paquin from a position teaching global studies at the end Continue Reading