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  • Freedom and Other Words0

    Promoting religious freedom is what I do. I do it because I believe in it, not because I’m paid to edit Liberty magazine. But sometimes I wonder what it takes to convince the average person that religious liberty is important now. It’s often been said that everyone has their price—the early talkies comedian W. C.

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  • Free Will, Predestination, and Religious Liberty0

    Listening to leaders of the Religious Right in the United States, one might well conclude that Christian dominance of civil government is a biblical command. But a careful review of both Scripture and church history soon reveals that, like a number of beliefs and practices in conservative Christian circles, this one entered Christian theology some

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  • Free Will0

    British scholar Roger Smith, in his book Being Human (Columbia University Press), maintains that "the notion of self-creation and the notion of freedom are intimately connected." This idea is evident when he quotes modern author Iris Murdoch as saying: "Our freedom is not just a freedom to choose and act differently, it is also a

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  • Free to Tweet?0

    Content Moderation, Religious Freedom, and the Digital Public Square If religious freedom is advocated only for pragmatic reasons, it can and will be sacrificed to expediency.”1 Those words, spoken in 1983 by the late evangelical theologian and ethicist Carl F. H. Henry, were prophetic. They foreshadowed much of what was to come after his death

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  • Free to Be0

    The South in which I grew up was rather rebellious toward the actions of the federal government. The slowness of the school systems to heed the Supreme Court’s school prayer ruling in Engel v. Vitale (1962) demonstrated that pretty clearly. I can remember daily organized prayer in school as late as 1973. I can also

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  • Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee0

    In July 1798 President John Adams was making his way with great pomp and ceremony from the then capital, Philadelphia, to his summer retreat in Massachusetts. As his carriage passed through the town of Newark, New Jersey, the president was welcomed with speeches, a parade, and a ceremonial 16-cannon salute.  Luther Baldwin, a skipper of

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