Most cultural indicators point to an increasingly secularized American society. As corollary, bringing religious convictions to bear in the public arena is becoming increasingly fraught. American citizens are thus pressed to confront a “sacred-versus-secular” divide as never before. What values can we expect the broader culture to hold without reference to religion? More importantly, what values should be held in common and advocated for in the public square?
As it concerns the task of bringing religious conviction into the public arena, two opposite and extreme attitudes avail themselves that are unacceptable. One of these is the militantly secularist attempt to privatize religion so that it does not enter the sphere of public reasoning.
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