America's Judeo-Christian roots include the work of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, a lobbying group founded in 1927. Adam Kirsch reviews a new history, Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise:
From Ground Zero to Orange County, the last year witnessed a series of revolting demonstrations of anti-Muslim prejudice in the United States, reminiscent of the kind of bigotry that Jews and Catholics once faced. Tri-Faith America shows that our religious diversity has been a process of mutual accommodation: As “foreign” religions become less dogmatic and distinctive, Americans stop seeing them as alien or threatening. With luck, the same benevolent process will allow us, a few generations from now, to talk blithely of America’s Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage.
The Dish 