Commandments Constituency

Facts of Life

Only one in five Americans approved of the federal court order under which workers removed the Ten Commf andments monument from the 1 rotunda of Alabama's state judicial building in August, “ according to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll conducted at the end of August. Some 77% of the 1,009 Americans interviewed disapproved of U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson's order to remove the monument.

Source: USA Today Register illustration by Tim Rauch

Edward Reginald Frampton, “The Voyage of St. Brendan,” 1908, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.

Which Way Is Heaven?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.