Bible Studies

Additional Resources for Intersection of Church & State

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Session One:

• George Washington's Farewell Address
  

• Thomas Jefferson's Danbury Baptist Letter
  

• Ratifying the Constitution
  

• The Declaration of Independence
  

• The Constitution of the United States
  

• The Bill of Rights
  

Session Two:

• German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
  

• Battle of Kappel in Switzerland (1531)
  

• Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547)
  

• The German, Spanish Netherlands and French Wars of Religion (1562-1598)
  

• Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) in the Low Countries
  

• Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) Affecting the Holy Roman Empire
  

• The Second Hundred Years' War (1689-1815)
  

• English Reformation and Civil War
  

• Irish Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland
  

• The English Civil War
  

• The Florida Massacre (French Huguenots in 1565)
  

• Aboard the Mayflower
  

• The First Thanksgiving - 1621
  

• Religion in Colonial America
  

• The Anglican Church in Virginia
  

• The Church of England in Early America
  

• Congregationalist Churches in Early America
  

• Anti-Catholic Sentiment in Colonial America
  

• Religion in Early Virginia
  

Session Three:

• Everson v. Board of Education
  Hugo Black discusses Jefferson's "wall of separation."

• William Rehnquist
  William Rehnquist writes about Hugo Black's use of Jefferson's "wall of separation."

• Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
  May a municipality put a manger scene in the public square?

Session Four:

• Hosanna Tabor case
  Does a church have the right to employ whomever it wants?

• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
  

• The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod President Matthew Harrison Comments on Supreme Court's June 28, 2012 Ruling
  

• The Necessary Service of Military Chaplains
  

• Operation Barnabas
  

• Civil Air Patrol Chaplains
  

• Catholic Charities of St. Louis
  

• LCMS World Relief and Human Care
  

• Lutheran World Relief
  

• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
  

• Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Survey
  

• Gallup Poll - Most and Least Religious States in America
  

• Daniel Dreisbach on Religion in America
  

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