01: The Renewed Question of Church and State
The following headline caught my attention the other day: “Parent…
The following headline caught my attention the other day: “Parent…
INTRODUCTION Given the institutions where I have taught during my…

The material below was published in the September, 2000 Journal…
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord,…
A version of this material has appeared in The Conspiracy…
National Public Radio is doubtless the most irritating and probably the most intelligent radio programming in America. It certainly got my Christmas off to a weird start. On the evening of December 21, 1996 NPR broadcast live from the pseudo-Christian neo-pagan Cathedral of Saint John the Divine via two hundred local and willing radio stations throughout the USA, the seventeenth annual Celebration of the Winter Solstice. The two hour concert was paid for, in part, by tax dollars from the NEA, both an example of pagan Church and State working harmoniously together, and a disturbing harbinger of the future.
Review of Claris Van Kuiken, Battle to Destroy Truth: Unveiling a Trail of Deception (Manassas, VA: REF Publishing, 1996), 320pp.