The Spectacle of Toleration project is pretty much wrapped up. In the fall of 2015, we will have a volume of papers from the conference, and we are working on a video component, but the day-to-day work of thinking about and organizing on this topic is complete.  I am now...

What are we to make of this moment? The Supreme Court’s recent decision was based on the idea  that any religious tradition might be represented in an opening prayer, but clearly some feel the message was otherwise:    

A re-posting of information about religious tolerance in a far away place: http://hir.harvard.edu/blog/sama-mammadova/religious-tolerance-in-azerbaijan-jews-germans-molokans-and-the-udi-of-nij    

An article in the Atlantic magazine provides some data here. 

by Tisa Wenger, Yale University Professor Wenger’s remarks may be viewed HERE. How did the “cult scare” of the 1970s, when controversies raged over new religious movements like the Church of Scientology and the Unification Church, change the politics of religious freedom in...

The George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom’s Educator’s Kit

The concept of separation of church and state is fundamental to American identity; it is etched deeply into our communal disposition and present in our national documents. The Constitution and its first amendment rights affect our interaction with theocratic governments around...

How Christian an Understanding? A PUBLIC CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR FOUNDERS AND THEIR INTENT Friday, June 21st, 2013 5-7 pm Great Friends Meeting House, Newport Panelists include author and scholar John Barry (Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul), professor and...

The John Clarke Society of Early American Democracy kicks off the Governor’s yearlong celebration of Rhode Island’s Royal Charter of 1663. May 4th at 11:30, Washington Square, Newport, the Society will celebrate the Charter with the premier performance of America’s Magna Carta....

2013 Annual Newell D. Goff Lecture at the Rhode Island Historical Society 110 Benevolent Street Providence, Rhode Island 02906 Thursday, the 9th of May, 6:30pm Theologies of Translation in Algonquian Country FAITH & FORM IN ROGER WILLIAMS’ “A KEY INTO THE...