Uniting Church and Flag
May 27, 2015
Literally. I am not Catholic, but I resent the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception being draped with an American flag over the weekend.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
Thinking Theologically about Memorial Day