About That posts feature responses to current events in 280 characters or fewer. Last week’s religious advertising flap Evangelicals for Marriage Equality: The Full-Page Advertisement That Wasn’t [via Hemant Mehta] (9/8) Religious News Service: Was Christianity Today Justified in Rejecting This Controversial Ad? (9/12) 9/18 Update: Evangelicals for Marriage Equality: A Response To Our Critics (9/18) About That It’s facile to […]
From Milton’s Areopagitica
Sometimes it’s the 400-year-old articles that speak most clearly. John Milton’s Areopagitica, a treatise from the early days of the English parliament, was inspired by a 1643 law that required new books, pamphlets, and papers to be reviewed and licensed by the new English government before publication and reprinted only when approved. In this tract, Milton, […]