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  • A Violation Of Faith0

    By Mark A. Kellner Illustration By Jeff Dever/Freshart The continuing battle over California's Women's Contraceptive Equity Act, or WCEA, is not only due to occupy part of that state's supreme court calendar this fall, but also highlights the continuing tensions between the free exercise of religion and government in America's most populous state. At issue

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  • A Very Public Religion0

    Over the course of the past 13 years Justice Antonin Scalia has emerged as one of the most controversial figures on the Supreme Court. Some claim that he has almost single-handedly pushed the debates concerning the Constitution back to the text itself and away from concerns of social theory and even case precedent.1

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  • A Turning Point0

    The middle of the seventeenth century was a key turning point in the history of religious war. The Thirty Years’ War was ended by the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which institutionalized the principle that princes could choose the religion of their state and that their choice was to be respected by other princes, even those

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  • A True Believer0

    Jews, often in response to those who want to “convert” them to another religion, have a common retort: “I was born a Jew, and I will die a Jew.” Fair enough, if one could actually be born a Jew (the long debate of what is a Jew will not be entertained here) any more than

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  • A Time of Fire0

    A few days ago I stood next to what looked like a rain-filled basement sunk deep into the green spring grass of a low Texas hilltop, called by some to this day Mount Carmel. It is all that is left today of the Branch Davidian Compound after Federal agents opened a general assault on April 19,

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  • A Tale of Two Unions0

    Sharlene Harwood fell in love with a theology major in college. She married the pastor—and life has not been the same since. A pastor’s wife is not an easy status in which to live.  Life is carried out as in a fish bowl. People are always watching. Rightly or wrongly, she is seen as a

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