Os Guinness on the Crucifixion as Comedy
The dynamics of the cross of Jesus are closer to those of comedy than tragedy. Both tragedy and comedy turn on the deep contradiction and discrepancies ... » Go
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Os Guinness on the Incongruities of Being Human
Almost all the world’s greatest philosophers and poets have faced up to the paradox and incongruities that confront us when we consider ourselves and our ... » Go
Fool’s Talk
In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches ... » Go
The Global Charter of Conscience
The Global Charter of Conscience has been drafted and published by a group of followers of many faiths and none, politicians of many persuasions, academics ... » Go
The Case for Civility
In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we ... » Go
Os Guinness on Tolerance Versus Free Exercise
Toleration was certainly the term of choice in matters of religious liberty before American independence. It had been made popular by writings such as John ... » Go
Os Guinness on Nationalism and Worshipping Ourselves
Yet over the course of time the United States has given rise to its own soft civil religion, and the reason lies in the character ... » Go
Os Guinness on Mutuality and Reciprocity
The principle of religious liberty for all rests on and requires an essential mutuality, or reciprocity, of rights, responsibilities, and respect — the “three Rs” ... » Go
Os Guinness on What Politics Can’t Do
Put differently, there are two equal but opposite errors into which Christians have fallen in the modern world. One error is to "privatize" faith, interpreting ... » Go
Os Guinness on Culture Warring
Many of the issues dividing the two sides are substantive, critical, and fully worthy of democratic debate. They are issues on which all responsible citizens ... » Go
Os Guinness on Faith Based Initiatives
Another example of a flawed understanding of the separation of church and state is George W. Bush’s much-trumpeted but bungled policy of providing government money ... » Go
Os Guinness on the Wall of Separation
But in reacting to to separationism, many conservatives have gone overboard and are actually speaking against the separation of church and state. ¶ One example ... » Go
Os Guinness on Religious Liberty
The right of religious liberty is a fundamental consequence of human nature itself and of our capacity as thinking, choosing, conscience-directed beings. … [T]his foundation ... » Go
Os Guinness on Religious and Secular Violence
It would be a safe but sad bet that someone, somewhere in the world, is killing someone else at this very moment in the name ... » Go
Os Guinness on American Ideals
As history’s first new nation and the current lead society in the modern world, the United States is distinctive for the way it was founded ... » Go
Os Guinness on the Culture Wars
To be sure, it is as dangerous to exaggerate the culture wars as it is to minimize them. At the core of these wars is ... » Go
Os Guinness on the Impossibility of Objectivity
By the very nature of the problem, no one stands outside the issues and speaks with complete detachment, objectivity, and neutrality. Certainly I do not. ... » Go
Os Guinness on the Secularization Thesis
The salience of religion in our times is a massive stumbling block to much educated opinion in Europe, the United States, and the Western world ... » Go
Os Guinness on French, English, and American Securalism
Church and state were not officially separated in France until February 21, 1795. But the overall explosion that the corrupt, coercive French establishment ignited against ... » Go
Os Guinness on the Weight of Prophetic Witness
Prisoner 174517 was thirsty. Seeing a fat icicle hanging just outside his hut in the Auschwitz extermination camp, he reached out of the window and ... » Go
Os Guinness on Bad Faith
Without truth we cannot answer the fundamental objection that faith in God is simply a form of “bad faith” or “poor faith.” The wilder accusation ... » Go
The Williamsburg Charter on the 1st Amendment
Keenly aware of the high national purpose of commemorating the bicentennial of the United States Constitution, we who sign this Charter seek to celebrate the ... » Go