Bible Studies

Additional Resources for Intersection of Church & State

Use these additional resources to supplement your study on this topic. Because of the Internet's changing nature, a link may modify or get deleted. If you discover a bad link in the list below, please contact us!

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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
  

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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
  

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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?

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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