Print On this date in 1637, Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Puritan theocracy of Boston by the Massachusetts General Court for sedition and heresy. Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a religious …
Publications
Meg Bowman
Print “Why burn? The answer is simple. Read the Bible — the Koran — the theologians and philosophers of the world. Look in your hymnals and then ask, ‘What better …
14th Amendment Adopted
Print On this date in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was formally adopted after certification by Secretary of State William Seward. It reads, in part: “No State shall make …
Norman Lear
Print “Without the separation of church and state, free, spirited public debate is impossible. The mutual respect that is essential to democratic debate is lost when a president’s opinions on …
Helen Taylor
Print “Religion should be taught by ministers of religion or by volunteer teachers, such as teachers of Sunday schools, and … the school master ought not to undertake the work …
Maya Rudolph
Print “I remember my mom not even saying ‘God bless you.’ She’d say, ‘Guhbless you’ because she didn’t want us to say ‘God.’ ” …
George Bernard Shaw
Print “It is not disbelief that is dangerous to society, it is belief.” …
Daniel Everett
Stanley Kubrick
Print “I don’t believe in any of earth’s monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that …
