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The Road to Freedom 0
- May/June 2017
- May 1, 2017
There was little fanfare when then President Obama signed the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) into law on December 16, 2016. He affixed his signature to the hard-won legislation along with some 50 other bills, ranging from the National Park Service Centennial Act to the Inspectors General Empowerment Act. Yet for the
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A New U.S. Administration Stimulates Evangelical Expectation 0
- May/June 2017
- May 1, 2017
The stakes were high for Evangelicals in 2016. The outcome of the presidential election would determine the direction of the Supreme Court, and along with it the fate of abortion, religious liberty, and other issues that are important to the Evangelical community. They responded to the challenge with a historically high turnout on Election Day.
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Partners or Protestors?0
- May/June 2017
- May 1, 2017
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his now-famous 95 theses to the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany. In his theses Luther remonstrated against the use of relics, usury, simony, nepotism, and the sale of indulgences. Initiating what in later years was termed the Protestant Reformation, Luther questioned papal authority, the
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An Anomaly in the Paradigm 0
- May/June 2017
- May 1, 2017
An unfunny thing about political revolutions (the ones that succeed, anyway): those who “rage against the machine,” the revolutionaries, upon taking power eventually become the establishment, the powers-that-be, the “machine” (even if another model) that they once raged against. And with rare exceptions, the new machine becomes as dogmatic and intolerant of dissent as what
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