America’s Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
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America’s Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State

by Randall Balmer

Because freedom needs boundaries too.

For you if

you believe the separation of church and state protects everyone including religious people and want the historical case

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Balmer reframes separation not as hostility to religion but as its greatest protector — the idea that allowed belief itself to flourish. With a historian’s clarity and a believer’s compassion, he argues that this boundary is America’s true sacred text. A love letter to pluralism, written in the language of freedom.

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Faith & Power