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  • The True Believer0

    The other day I listened spellbound to an interview with Alvin Toeffler, author of the seminal book "Future Shock." It does seem that we are living through many of his prognostications. The societal shifts and dislocations of the modern age explain in large measure the current religious agitation—whether it is Islamic radicalism in the Middle

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  • The Trail of Crocodile Tears0

    Most people have heard the phrase “the Young Turks.” The appellation first came to prominence, in American politics in the early 1960s, when it referred to some Republicans in Congress who, upset with the status quo, sought to bring radical change to the party (among these “Young Turks” were Gerald Ford, Donald Rumsfeld, and Melvin

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  • The Tragic Flaw0

    Just a few days ago I walked alongside my father as hospital orderlies wheeled him into the operating room for rather serious surgery*. He had been very ill for a week or two and I don't think he had much sense of current world events. But his mind was active and he couldn't stop talking

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  • The Third Way0

    The Seventh-day Adventist Church, in common with all major Christian denominations, places a high premium on education. Worldwide the church operates a total of 5,464 elementary and secondary schools, with 1,024 of them in North America. In the United States, these schools are part of the 6 million students in 27,000 schools who attend non-public

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  • The Third Party Interest0

    With the rhetoric and rancor rising in the campaign for the White House, the election has increasingly become a call to the faithful, with candidates attempting to outdo one another in appealing to religious voters. Indeed, listening to these candidates, one could easily think this is a campaign for ecclesiastical rather than presidential office. One

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  • The Theocratic Theory of Government0

    ATHEOCRACY is a form of government in which all the affairs of men, whether temporal or spiritual, civil or religious, are united under the control of God. The government of Israel was a true theocracy. It was really a government of God. When doing their duty, the kings of Israel ruled the people according to

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