Elizabeth

Speaking at a religious service on June 26th, Lauren Boebert told worshipers: “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it.”

She added: “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like what they say it does.”

This conflation of church and state is not new, but it is a growing part of public discourse. Christian Nationalism, which is a driving force behind certain political forces in America today, encourages people to merge their religious and their national identities. [Read More]

This is our 100th episode. Carl and I want to thank you for joining us on this little journey of ours. We have had a great time and appreciate that you have chosen to give us a little bit of your attention during your busy week.

For this special episode we thought we would return to the very beginning – who we are. We chose the name Kairoticast because it is a blend of the Greek work “kairos” and “podcast.” Clearly, you know what a podcast is. But let’s talk for a minute about kairos. [Read More]

This week we address the dissent in the Dobbs case.

We explained last week why dissents can be so important. Eventually the reasoning of a dissent can become the common understanding. More on that in a minute.

Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan list MANY reasons for their dissent, a number of which have been circulated among popular discourse. [Read More]

Where to even begin?

In a normal world (or whatever that means) the big news of the week would have been the January 6th committee. It continues to lay out a devastating case against the former president and has even called a special session that wasn’t originally scheduled because of new evidence it has received while the proceedings have been going on. So it’s a pretty juicy story. And the bombshells that it dropped this week were pretty big, no doubt. But it has to share the headlines. I mean, we’re basically having public hearings on whether a sitting president fomented insurrection, and it’s not the major news of the day. That cannot be a good sign for us, as a nation. [Read More]