By George Francis Kane In 1985, the Minnesota Legislature instituted a program for high school students to take classes at accredited colleges to receive both college and high school credit. This Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program provided funds to pay to the postsecondary institution (PSI) the cost of enrollment in Read more…
By August Berkshire Christopher Cameron, Ph.D., is Professor of History and the Interim Chair of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also the co-editor of Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter: Essays on a Moment and a Movement. He was the founding president of Read more…
By George Francis Kane In February the non-partisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and Brookings Institution released the findings of their survey of the attitudes of Americans towards Christian nationalism. The study sought to quantify the support and opposition to Christian nationalism and to see how that breaks down by Read more…
By August Berkshire Currently Minnesota Statutes restrict who can solemnize (conduct) a civil marriage to the following categories of people (Section 517.04): a) certain government officials,b) the residential school superintendent of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and the Minnesota State Academy for the Blind,c) a licensed or ordained Read more…
By George Francis Kane In late December I got to binge on The West Wing on HLN. During a Season 1 episode, President Jed Bartlett’s new body man, Charley Young, was surprised to learn that the president would be speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast. “Doesn’t that violate the separation Read more…