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  • Minority Report0

    A Mitt Romney Speech Evokes John F. Kennedy On September 12, 1960, Catholic Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy gave a landmark speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (a group of Protestant ministers) regarding concerns about his Catholicism1. If elected, he would become the first Catholic president of the United States. In the speech,

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  • Merely Tolerable0

    Thomas Jefferson, in an unsent letter from Monticello, dated September 27, 1809, to a James Fishback that addressed his own views on the proper roles of church and state, provided a rather extraordinary response line. He passionately observed that &”among the Mahometans we are told that thousands fell victims to the dispute whether the first

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  • Menace or Misunderstanding0

    The beheading of journalist James Foley in August 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)1 riveted the attention of the Western world to the threat posed by radical Muslim groups. Although the majority of Muslims worldwide are surely civil, peace-loving citizens of their respective countries, such actions by ISIL raise the

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  • Meanwhile Back on Planet Earth0

    In the cyber world that so many of us inhabit, life has become startling of late. It is hard to ignore claims of the looming presence of the planet Nabiru. It is supposedly so close many claim to have already spotted it in the night sky! Soon we will feel its gravitational effect as it

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  • Meaning and Peace: The Story of Stanford’s Religious Liberty Clinic0

    Law students help pioneer a renewed understanding of religious liberty for polarized times. In January 2013, we launched at Stanford Law School our nation’s then-only Religious Liberty Clinic. A law school clinic is an academic program in which students learn the practice and profession of law through faculty-supervised legal representation of clients in the field.

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  • May Our Tribe Increase0

    People of a certain age, and I include myself, still have problems with body tattoos and various piercings. People of a certain provenance, and I include myself, remember seeing this sort of thing on newsreel footage of cannibals in New Guinea. To see it now makes me wonder again about the real meaning of the

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