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Let’s celebrate the Pilgrims (the Puritans not so much)
By Mark Silk — November 22, 2017
(RNS) — The Pilgrims practiced religious tolerance. The Puritans — as 'The Scarlet Letter' and Salem witch trials attest — did not. (COMMENTARY)
How Eric Metaxas manipulates the past to serve his political agenda
By John Fea — July 13, 2016
(RNS) To suggest that religious freedom and religious tolerance have been the single most important principle of American life is flat-out wrong.
En route to Sotheby’s, Bay Psalm Book traces nation’s seesaw religious history
By David Van Biema — November 20, 2013
(RNS) The Bay Psalm Book “is for American book collecting what the Guttenberg Bible has been for collecting, period,” said Bill Reese, a major dealer in printed Americana “…Except there are 46 copies of the Guttenberg.”
GUEST COMMENTARY: First Amendment protects everybody’s religious freedom
By Charles C. Haynes — July 23, 2012
(RNS) Attempts to favor one faith -- historically Protestant Christianity -- over others in the public square are doomed to fail in the new religious America of the 21st century. But that won't stop many in the majority from trying. By Charles C. Haynes.
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