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- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
From their earliest years Seventh-day Adventists, today a worldwide movement with more than 21 million members, have been interested in religious liberty issues. This interest stems from the importance of the topic in general, and from two other reasons in particular. First, as their name suggests, they keep the seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, a practice that
READ MORESupreme Court cases of great import often involve unexpected, almost plebeian, subjects. In the area of interstate commerce, it was milk, and the regulation of its production and transport. In the area of the free exercise of religion clause, it was unemployment benefits. Here's how it happened. Adeile Sherbert was only 19 years old when
READ MOREOn one level, events of late have had a certain air of déjà vu for me. As a young man I followed the events leading up to the decision to impeach President Nixon. The story line was a bit like a John Le Carré spy novel, involving as it did money payoffs by courier, a
READ MOREhe biblical book of Daniel tells a tale from the times of the Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar the Great. Babylon today is a pile of ruins about 50 miles south of Baghdad. But about 600 B.C. Babylon was the center of the world and its largest kingdom; founded by force of arms and culture. On
READ MORESometimes it’s an indignant murmur, sometimes it’s an angry tirade, but lately you hear it louder and louder. &”America is taking God out of everything, and we wonder why our nation is experiencing so many problems,&”1 posted someone identified as &”T&” to the Amboy Times in response to a blurb about the removal of &”In
READ MOREI esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other. John Locke, in A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689.
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