Does prayer belong in a public school?

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Linda K. Wertheimer, a journalist and the author of the book Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. In a recent article in The New Republic, Linda explores renewed efforts in some parts of the country to get prayer back into public schools. They discuss: Linda’s experience of being the only Jewish student in a public school with weekly Christian Bible classes The history of school prayer at the Supreme Court How to balance religious freedom and inclusion in an increasingly diverse country In Signs of the Times, the hosts give an update on Pope Francis’ recovery after his three-hour abdominal surgery and discuss the approval of what would be the first publicly funded religious charter school in the nation. Finally, Ashley reflects on her vision of heaven. Links from the show: Surgeon: Pope Francis is ‘alert’ and cracking jokes after hernia operation Catholic virtual school approved by Oklahoma board would be first religious charter in the U.S. Inside the Christian Legal Crusade to Revive School Prayer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.7	America media that lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them
0:48.2	join us each week for a smart cap of tape on faith, culture in the news,
0:52.7	often over drinks.
0:53.8	I'm Ashley McKinless, and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
0:57.2	I can barely see you through the smog that
0:59.8	is overtaken New York City.
1:01.9	We're recording this on Wednesday, and it looks real bad outside.
1:05.0	Yes, so if you're not on the East Coast, we are currently under a blanket of smoke from the
1:10.0	wildfires in Canada, so this, prayers for the people in Canada who are dealing with the
1:15.0	actual fires, but here in New York it's a very eerie looking. Yeah, it's I've
1:19.4	never seen the city look like this before. It's really like, kind of like orange and yeah, hazy, it's really like kind of like orange and yeah
1:23.7	hazy smells like a bonfire outside I do like that part I love bonfire
1:27.4	yeah normally it's a good thing but I feel like it's really not great for
1:30.1	breathing right in general but we are currently in this climate controlled studio so that's the good
1:35.8	news and we have a great show this week yes we are talking to Linda K Wertheimer she is
1:41.1	the author of a really interesting piece that appeared recently in the New
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