In Williston, the school board reviewed 25 challenged books, and kept all of them on the shelves. A hopeful sign that the fiery rhetoric of the book banners isn't culminating in the bans they want.
In Williston, the school board reviewed 25 challenged books, and kept all of them on the shelves. A hopeful sign that the fiery rhetoric of the book banners isn't culminating in the bans they want.
In the classic Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury paints a picture of a future world where firefighters start fires, rather than put them out fires created with
Civic theism for the authors of the Declaration moved beyond a narrow set of religious practices or beliefs. Individual founders differed in their doctrines, and yet they unanimously advocated for a theistic republic. It was built on the premise that a good God not only created the world but demanded justice, liberty and equality from those who govern it. Remove its foundation, and a republic such as this is doomed to fracture and collapse.
Mike Johnson opened his tenure as Speaker of the House with a speech citing the creator God mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. The speech drew criticism from columnists in the Washington Post, Time, PBS, and the New York Times, among others. Much of it shifted between Johnson’s support of Trump, his church affiliations, and his penchant for employing biblical language.