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Budget Cuts of Biblical Proportions
Religious discussions of the federal budget often generate more heat than light. The debate tends to feature sloganeering ( “What Would Jesus Cut? Who Would Jesus Bomb?” ) and...
Calvin, Conversions, and Catholicity
Since the sixteenth century, conversions and counter-conversions between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism have been the stuff of controversy, polemic, and recrimination. The Lutheran-Catholic concord on the formula cuius regio,...
Sotomayor, Catholic Supremacy, and Protestant Approaches to Law
The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court raises the prospect that for the first time in history there will be a supermajority of justices on...
Between Market and State
By many accounts the rise to prominence of institutions other than the church or the state marks the transition from the medieval to the modern era. Even so, it...
