Recently on Religion Dispatches there are two essays that give interesting progressive religious perspectives on the relationship between the state/government and religion/spirituality.
The first is Bruce Ledewitz's report on a panel discussion about the role of religious language in government. "Can government use religious language while remaining neutral in matters of religion?"
The second is Cady, Clarkson, and Ledewitz's article giving a good dialogue dealing with whether to reaffirm a division or separation in the relationship between religion and the state based on the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution or allow some religious language in the public sphere. "Is it time for progressives, religious and nonreligious, to move toward a strategic acceptance of religious language in the public square? Or should efforts be focused on adding bricks to the wall of church/state separation?"
See more articles and essays at Religion Dispatches.
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