Is America a “Christian Nation” and what does that mean?
Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, initiated in 1795 by George Washington and signed by John Adams in 1797, plainly states that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” One may also review our Constitution and take note of Article 6, which makes [...]
How do you interpret the Genesis creation story?
The so-called “Priestly” creation myth recorded in the first chapter of Genesis presents a world in which the Creator-deit(ies) formed the Earth and Heavens out of the primordial chaos-ocean, followed by successive layers of creative structure in which all categories of the known Cosmos were produced in a stepwise fashion, with the formation of humankind [...]
Modern connections between religion and art
The modern art world seeks to find existing boundaries and transcend them. Arguably, this has been in process for the known history of artistic expression, but the secular culture in the Western world has removed the final boundary of religious propriety. Thus, the challenge in finding modern expressions of religious art is that given the [...]