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- February 6, 2015
When a federal court ruled unconstitutional the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board policy promoting "intelligent design" in the science classroom, it also noted the limits of its decision. The court explicitly refrained from taking a position on the validity of the religious belief that a supernatural force played a role in creation. It also made plain
READ MORENot the catchiest of titles, but I use it for a reason. The historian Will Durant spent nearly 50 years writing The Story of Civilization. It put him in the company of such ambitious personal historians as Edward Gibbon and Winston Churchill. Like Churchill, Durant was able to stamp history with a well-reasoned, narrative style.
READ MOREFor the past few months the eyes of the believers around the world have been fixed on an Iranian death row "apostate" who has refused to recant his faith in Jesus Christ. Yousef Nadarkhani was first arrested in his hometown of Rasht, Iran, in October 2009, for violating the law by his protesting the mandatory
READ MOREOn February 6, 2021, nearly a year into the COVID-19 shutdowns, the Supreme Court issued an injunction blocking the state of California’s ban on indoor church services. The Court did indicate that current restrictions on singing and percentage occupancy can remain in place. Two large California churches, South Bay United Pentecostal Church near San Diego
READ MOREOne afternoon in the late 1950s, while helping my mother tidy up our rural Baptist church in the Missouri Ozarks, I came across a packet of tracts on separation of church and state published by an organization called Americans United for Separation for Church and State. I was very young, and I asked my mother
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