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  • ​A Living Rebuke0

    As World War II was nearing its end, and the conundrum of an Eastern Europe “liberated” from Hitler by the Soviet Union was becoming a hot-button issue, Winston Churchill warned Soviet dictator Josef Stalin about the power of the Catholic Church in these countries. Without missing a beat, Stalin countered, “How many divisions does the

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  • A Limited Public Forum?0

    In church-state activism today the battle lines usually form between separationists and accommodationists. While there are other positions, these two have emerged dominant. While by the reckoning of most observers the accommodationists have been winning more often than not in Supreme Court decisions, no one wins all the time. In fact, one of the great

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  • A License To Speak?0

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  • A Lawless Law0

    The scene has been repeated so often in Pakistan in the past several years that the word “shocking” is no longer applicable, because it’s no longer shocking, just (sadly), tragically predictable. As for the perpetrators, the only thing that changes is the name of the so-called Muslim extremist group that proudly takes responsibility for the

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  • A Lament for Christianity’s Political Turn0

    Tim Alberta’s new book takes an inside look at the struggle for the soul of American evangelicalism. Picture this. A pastor finishes his sermon, offers a closing benediction, then closes his Bible. He has just preached a moving homily on the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew—a cornerstone teaching

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  • A Lady of the Lake0

    1871, The Atlantic Ocean: A determined Fréderic Auguste Bartholdi stares out at the vast Atlantic Ocean. He strokes his beard as the high seas wind blows through his hair. Paris lies behind him, and the ocean steamer slices through the steel-gray waters bound for the eastern shores of America. The challenging maritime passage will take

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