Today “On the Square” offers a double feature: Lee J. Strang’s explanation of what the First Amendment really said about freedom of religion, Church, State, and Original Intent , and George Weigel’s analysis of the famous Lutheran historian’s misunderstanding of Christianity and war, Getting Beyond Bainton . Both illuminate matters of considerable importance.
The Classroom Heals the Wounds of Generations
“Hope,” wrote the German-American polymath Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, “is the deity of youth.” Wholly dependent on adults, children…
Still Life, Still Sacred
Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human…
Letters
I am writing not to address any particular article, but rather to register my concern about the…