Sentences with phrase «civil public square»

Naked, Sacred, Civil It bears repeating here that the alternative to the naked public square is not the sacred public square but the civil public square.

Neuhaus claims that «the alternative to the naked public square is not the sacred public square but the civil public square.

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that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

Does he mean that in the present state of affairs, where the prospect of a confessional state is next to nil, we should prudently strive incrementally to achieve a lesser good, like a merely civil society, postponing the direct pursuit of a sacred public square and a confessional state until prudence dictates?

Writing for a general audience, the author surveys some of the disputes over whether the public square should be naked, sacred, or civil.

All that said, Equal Liberty should be appreciated as an improvement on strict no - aid versions of church - state separation and welcomed as a powerful response to those who contend that our Constitution requires a naked public square or a civil society evacuated of religious argument and expression.

Antislavery, Progressive - era reforms, the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam movement, the movement to aid Soviet Jews — all depended, in significant part, on religious activism within the public square.

CMO Asia conferred the award during the Asia Social Innovation Excellence Awards 2016 at the Pan Pacific Marina Square in Singapore over the weekend for his distinguished record in both public service and civil society action.

Saint - Gaudens received many significant commissions through his association with White, including his first major public work, a monument of Civil War hero David Farragut that stands in Madison Square Park, New York.

Always provocative and deeply insightful, Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical «civil and cosmopolitan public square» that speaks not only to America's immediate concerns but to the long - term interests of the republic and the world.