A great deal of Supreme Court precedent — and popular opinion — has been shaped by Thomas Jefferson's description of "a wall of separation between Church & State". The saying is often misused and misunderstood: Church-state separation is not meant to create a religion-free civil society or public sphere.
They're just misunderstood little church going angels and the ghetto hoodie look doesn't have anything to do with why people wonder if they're about to get jacked by a thug".
Partly due to the lack of information and through targeted misinformation our situation was also misunderstood within the church.
Light on church teachings, it's less an attempt to proselytize and more an attempt to introduce people who may be less familiar with it to the often-misunderstood church.
"I think the whole concept of submission has been greatly misunderstood in the Christian church," he told me.
And, lest I be misunderstood as blaming certain churches and absolving others, I am not referring to any specific churches here; I am certainly not saying that the absent churches took one stand, while the churches that attended took another.
"The concept of our established church is occasionally misunderstood and, I believe, commonly under-appreciated.
Then again, the Vatican and the American Catholic church have often misunderstood each other.
Queen Elizabeth II, who is both the titular head of the Anglican Church and Britain's head of state, was moved to say that "the concept of our established church is occasionally misunderstood and, I believe, commonly underappreciated".
Maybe it was because of that growth and excitement that Jeff Padilla, the leader of the church's youth group, misunderstood his sister when she roused him awake the morning of Dec. 9. "She came in and said, 'The church is on fire!' " he recalled.
"One of the things that is misunderstood when talking about a broad church is that everyone is a combination of liberalism and conservatism.
