Posts Tagged ‘St. Augustine’

St. Augustine chimes in on the Burris appointment

By Chad Crawford • Jan 11th, 2009 • Category: church history, engaging, politics

There was a column in the NYT the other day by Stanley Fish comparing the controversy surrounding the Burris appointment to the Donatist Controversy. While the government is not a religious institution, I believe if St. Augustine were an influential person in today’s American politics, his judgment would be that Burris should be seated, barring [...]