A new online journal out of Washington University in St. Louis and the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics. Check it out!Senator John Danforth is someone I admire greatly. I first learned about him through Paul Ramsey when I was an undergraduate at Princeton; he had combined the study of religion with the study of law in a way that I hoped to emulate. He is pro-life; his name is attached as the defendant to one of the most famous abortion cases to reach the Supreme Court: Planned Parenthood v. Danforth, in which the Supreme Court struck down a number of restrictions on abortion proposed by the State of Missouri. (Danforth was attorney general at the time.) At the same time, he has been a strong advocate of civility rather than the culture wars in proposing religiously animated moral values in the public square.The new center is something that might interest Commonweal's readership--and they will find a familiar face or voice or two, as this link suggests.
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