Sentences with phrase «vigorous public square»

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Our protest against «the naked public square» was then a distinctly minority position, whereas today there is a much more widespread recognition that church - state jurisprudence is a shambles, and that the democratic process requires the vigorous engagement of the religiously based moral convictions of the American people.

When First Things was founded more than twenty years ago, movement conservatism was delighted by the unexpected, vigorous, and electorally significant entry of religiously conservative Christians into the public square.