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  • The Good Old Days0

    The summer of 1886 was a bad time for Charles B. Reynolds. The iconoclastic religious skeptic (and former Methodist minister) took his free-thought message to Boonton, New Jersey. If Reynolds expected Boontonians to abandon Christianity and embrace free thought, he must have been disappointed. Instead, an unruly mob pelted him with rotten eggs, tore down

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  • The Good Fight0

    Religion has become inherently political in 2020. For decades capital punishment, same-sex marriage, and gun control have been hot-button topics on the campaign trail. But now presidential candidates are expected to address late-term abortion, transgender rights, and Sharia law during their debates. These issues, and the legislature that will result depending on which candidate is

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  • The Glorious 108th0

    By James Standish Illustration by Ralph Butler The beginning of a new Congress is somewhat like the birth of a new baby. Like a child, the new Congress is born with the burden of history sitting fairly across its shoulders, it has much of the DNA of the preceding Congress, and it operates in much

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  • The Globalization of Religious Liberty0

    At the opening of the third millennium there appears to be positive global consensus regarding religious liberty as a fundamental human right. In fact, it has become, generally speaking, politically incorrect to be

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  • The Ghost of Elections Past0

    Recent actions by prominent evangelical Christians give evidence of compromise for the sake of political advantage, including what might be called one of the most striking theological sellouts in the history of the Christian church. The closing days of the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign witnessed a remarkable, almost unbelievable reversal on the part of the world’s most

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  • The Gathering0

    A Book Review Redux Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980, by Rick Perlstein. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020. Alarmed at what they saw as the decay of morality in the nation, religious fundamentalists John Conlon and Bill Bright in 1976 organized a group of activist protestants, the Christian Freedom Foundation. Previously the Southern Baptist Association had

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