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  • Lessons From the Field of Blackbirds0

    Death came with a frigid dawn and the thump of mortar fire over the sleepy town of Prekez, Serbia. Marie Kodra, 38, fled with her five children as Serbs fired into the houses. Avoiding the streets that were crawling with police, Mrs. Kodra led the children into the hills. Seeing a police patrol and hoping

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  • Lessons from Bonhoeffer0

    Learning to put God and others—rather than self—at the heart of religious freedom In January 2017, four days after the inauguration of the then-president of the United States, the first class meeting of my spring-term course at Harvard Divinity School focused on the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian of the 1930s

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  • Lessons from a Recovering Political Candidate0

    Running for public office is undisputedly the hardest, most humbling, and most exhilarating exercise of American civics. In my quest to become an Oregon state legislator, I had the privilege of enduring both the majesty and seamy underbelly of electoral politics. As a candidate of solid faith and spiritual conviction, my approach to being a

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  • Leaving Home0

    While some have decided to stay and fight, other homeschooling families in Sweden are emigrating after losing a years-long battle with the government over the right to educate at home. Last summer Parliament passed what it calls "The New Education Act—for Knowledge, Choice, and Security." The 1,500 pages will bring vast changes to the educational

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  • Leaving Faith Behind0

    On July 15, 2011, with political headlines dominated by negotiations over the U.S. debt ceiling, another political story caught the nation’s notice. At the top of CNN’s political page that day, the story read, &”Michele Bachmann Officially Leaves Her Church.&”1 According to the report, the Bachmanns—members of the Salem Lutheran Church in Still­water, Minnesota, for

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  • Learning to Speak Well0

    On March 21, 2019, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that protects freedom of speech on college campuses. Perhaps no one understands the need for this executive order better than Matthew Vitale. A student at the University of California at Riverside, he was verbally and physically accosted by another student who was offended by

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