Tue, Sep 30
|Washington
Profs & Pints DC: America’s Advocates of Theocracy
“America’s Advocates of Theocracy,” a look at past and current religious challenges to our nation’s separation of church and state, with Jerome Copulsky, scholar of religion and political theory, former senior advisor at the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “America’s Advocates of Theocracy,” a look at past and current religious challenges to our nation’s separation of church and state, with Jerome Copulsky, scholar of religion and political theory, former senior advisor at the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs and author of the acclaimed book American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order.
President Trump has on a number of occasions promised to elevate the place of religion in our nation’s governance and public life. Among his actions to further that goal, he has issued an executive order to eradicate anti-Christian bias in the federal government, established a Religious Liberty Commission, and installed televangelist Paula White-Cain as head of a newly created White House Faith Office. Many of his supporters hope that he will go further.
Such a pushback against the separation of church and state is nothing new. Throughout our nation’s history…