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Roger Williams 0
- September/October 2020
- September 1, 2020
In the film Reds, Warren Beatty’s biopic of the radical journalist and, for a time, Lenin sympathizer John Reed, we first see Reed chasing a runaway horse-drawn vehicle during his time with the revolutionary Pancho Villa. At the end of the film this image emerges once again, where Reed, disillusioned by the Bolshevik Revolution, once
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Getting to Know the Nones 0
- September/October 2020
- September 1, 2020
The Nones–the religiously unaffiliated–represent a compromise between being an atheist or agnostic, and holding on to pure faith and traditional organized religion. The Nones are independent in their thinking, spiritual but not dogmatic, and they challenge organized religion on such issues as abortion, euthanasia, separation of church and state, women’s right to join the priesthood,
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Theoretical Freedoms 0
- September/October 2020
- September 1, 2020
It is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile this year of COVID-19 with anything but a bad dream. As the contagion moved from Wuhan, China, to parts Occidental, the lights began to go out. Even before the body count was beyond annual influenza proportions the unwinding of civilization had begun. Now U.S. deaths alone are well
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To Church or Not to Church 0
- September/October 2020
- September 1, 2020
Given the severe anticipated health risks of COVID-19, it should not have been a surprise when state and local governments began to impose significant restrictions. Millions of Americans were placed under orders to stay at home and avoid “nonessential” work and activities. The economy reacted immediately, with unemployment rates equaling or exceeding those occurring during
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