If you’ll be eating lunch at your desk today, you might enjoy watching one of these videos:
A “Dan Rather Reports” feature on ” Church and State: Separation Anxieties ” includes an hour-long panel discussion with Judge Michael McConnell, Holly Hollman, Prof. Richard Garnett, and Prof. Christopher Eisgruber. Both McConnell and Garnett are contributors to First Things , and you can read Garnett’s review of Eisgruber’s new book on Religious Liberty here . The panel takes place at Princeton University, where Eisgruber serves as provost.
If academics talking constituional law might upset your stomach, you can turn to a journalist talking religion . . . NBC’s Tim Russert discusses his faith (he’s Catholic) and American life here .
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