Keith Pavlischek

Morality and Contemporary Warfare by james turner johnson yale university press, 259 pages, $25 The average person has every reason to approach somewhat skeptically books with titles like Morality and Contemporary Warfare . And one should not be supposed “anti-intellectual” if that skepticism . . . . Continue Reading »

When Sacred and Secular Mix: Religious Nonprofit Organizations and Public Money By Stephen V. Monsma. Rowman and Littlefield, 237 pages, $27.95. When he began his research on religious nonprofit organizations and their relationship to government, Stephen Monsma could hardly have foreseen the . . . . Continue Reading »

Someone has quipped that an evangelical can be defined as someone who says to a liberal, “I’ll call you a Christian if you’ll call me a scholar.” Though Wheaton College historian Mark Noll knows all the one- liners about evangelicals, this one does not make his book. Evangelicals’ . . . . Continue Reading »

In the field of church-state jurisprudence, as is well known, legal scholars are generally divided between “strict separationists” and “accommodationists.” The former place a “broad interpretation” on the First Amendment’s prohibition of establishment, insisting on an absolute . . . . Continue Reading »