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Preaching Politics 0
- January/February 2025
- January 1, 2025
Does a 70-year-old tax code provision known as the Johnson Amendment protect America’s houses of worship? Or unconstitutionally restrain them? Local church pastor Stephen Cook provides a view from the pulpit. The Apostle Paul may have been the original church gossip. Allow me to explain. “Gossip,” before it came to its current meaning, had a
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Enforcing the “Law of God”0
- January/February 2025
- January 1, 2025
How Afghanistan became the world’s largest prison for women and girls. In the summer of 2021, U.S. and NATO troops scrambled to exit Afghanistan, leaving behind a fragile democratically elected government and a country in turmoil. Sima Samar, Afghanistan’s former minister of women’s affairs, along with women’s rights scholar Dyan Mazurana, describe what happened next.
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Adam and Eve Go to School 0
- January/February 2025
- January 1, 2025
An enduring dispute in American public education concerns teaching about human origins and whether students must receive instruction solely on evolution or can learn about the Genesis account of creation in science classes. A recent Indiana case, Reinoehl v. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, demonstrates how this dispute lingers on, almost a century after the first case
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Baptism as Revolution 0
- January/February 2025
- January 1, 2025
This year marks 500 years since a largely forgotten act of defiance helped birth modern religious freedom. Baptism as an act of political revolution? It certainly was viewed as such 500 years ago in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, where Anabaptist leader Conrad Grebel and his companions debated with Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli the question
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