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  • A World on Fire0

    The world is burning, literally and symbolically. And no one knows how to put out the “fires.” As we watch TV images of wildfires from California to Australia, and mass riots from Asia to Latin America, it’s very hard to suppress a feeling of impotence; that we are faced with “fires” raging beyond human control.

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  • A Win for (Religious) Free Speech?0

    One person’s “content moderation” is another’s “censorship.” Given social media’s tortuous free speech history, what does Meta’s latest policy change mean for religious expression online? Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta, released a video on social media announcing massive shifts in how the company will deal with speech on its suite

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  • A Welcome Boost for Religious Freedom on Campus0

    Four years after Christian high school students were denied equal access, a court reaffirms robust First Amendment protections. In September last year a federal appeals court handed down a major religious freedom decision that protects religious individuals and religious organizations within the nine westernmost states and benefits religious freedom nationwide. In Fellowship of Christian Athletes

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  • A Way To Escape0

    Where can we find hope in the news from Iraq and Syria? With 3,000 Yezidi girls still enslaved by Islamic militants, millions displaced from their homes, and daily reports of more Christians being beheaded and crucified, the situation is clearly grim. Many girls in “Bazi’s” situation have committed suicide. She is one of the few

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  • A Warning From the Past0

    Seventh-day Adventist editor Joseph Waggoner was a firsthand witness to the threats to civil and religious liberties in America from the 1850s to the 1880s. He was not blind to the faults he saw in a Southern-controlled Congress. In 1858 he condemned the federal government for its “slaveocratic practices” and declared that in Congress, the

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  • A Wall of Confusion0

    The understanding that the freedom of religion clause in the First Amendment was intended to erect "a wall of separation between church and state" is rapidly becoming pass̩ and is already regarded by many with actual hostility. This wall view was espoused in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association in

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