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- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
We welcome any sons of Adam who come in love among us and will not condemn, punish, banish, prosecute, or lay violent hands upon anyone, in whatever name, form, or title he might appear. We are true subjects of both the church and the state and we are bound by the law of God and
READ MORERobert Louis Wilken, Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Liberty (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019). Do the modern foundations of religious liberty owe more to early Christianity than to Enlightenment thinking? In his ambitious book, historian Robert Louis Wilken seeks to reveal the role that Christianity has played in the development
READ MOREGrand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 2021. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right succinctly tells a story that has rarely, if ever, been told. In a small, readable account of some 88 pages, historian Randall Balmer takes on two important tasks. First, he shatters the myth that opposition to abortion was the engine
READ MOREA few minutes earlier a 32-year-old auto mechanic named Keith Cook left a birthday party "drunk and angry." He tore off in his 1972 pickup, which soon approached the same road where the Russell accident had occurred. Cook's pickup became airborne as it barreled over a hill and, though he hit the brakes, smashed into
READ MOREI just spent a goodly portion of this morning mulling over and then writing the editorial for this issue. The unfortunate part of the story is that it was not this editorial. It was another version. One begun in a flurry of brain activity and pattered down on the keyboard as I proceeded. In fact,
READ MOREA forced faith is no faith at all: for the freedom to believe entails the freedom to doubt. Such is one of the unspoken though no less important lessons implicit in Steven Goldberg’s Bleached Faith: The Tragic Cost When Religion Is Forced Into the Public Square. His is a timely primer on the significance of
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