Sorry it’s been pretty dead around here – my dissertation has absorbed my writing time so I’m doing less public writing. And I’ve taken over new editorial duties at TGR that will probably hinder me from contributing there as a writer. So posts on HT will likely continue to be sparse for a while.

But I did just wrap up my latest TGR series, arguing that public spaces are shared among people of many beliefs but that does not make them secular in the sense that we ought to behave in public as if we had no beliefs:

We cannot cultivate social spaces as shared spaces if we charge into them with weapons drawn, intent on fighting off the secularists and making the spaces shared by force. We must instead go into the social spaces, declare them to be shared, remain there in the teeth of secular opposition and continue to declare that the spaces are shared, and give ourselves up to be crucified rather than compromise on the sharedness of public space.

Because the proposition that public space is shared is identical with the proposition that people without family or religious ties nonetheless share a common humanity, and owe something to one another. A proposition well worth being crucified for.

Let me know what you think!