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The Burden of Freedom 0
- July/August 2017
- July 1, 2017
In book five of The Brothers Karamazov, in the section “The Grand Inquisitor,” the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) has Jesus return to earth in the sixteenth century, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. That day “almost a hundred heretics had, for the greater glory of God, been burnt by the cardinal, the
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The Bridge to Tomorrow 0
- March/April 2009
- March 1, 2009
&”Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.&” —Edwin Hubbell Chapin On Monday, March 29, 1948, the city of Jerusalem had on hand only a five-day supply of margarine, four days of macaroni, and ten days of dried meat. There was no
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The Bridge 0
- July/August 2020
- July 1, 2020
Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama Twenty- five-year-old John Lewis, clad in a gray trench coat and wearing a shirt and tie, walked steadily toward Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. Behind him, some 600 nonviolent protesters marched solemnly, two to a row. The scuffling of their shoes on the pavement serving as
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The Break From Rome 0
- January/February 2009
- January 1, 2009
This article is part one in a four part series. Read Part 2 Henry VIII set off an extraordinary chain of vents in the 1530s when he broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, becoming the first European monarch to deny the power of the Papacy, and establishing himself as “Supreme Head” of the church
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The Body of Faith 0
- January/February 2014
- January 1, 2014
I sat down across a table from the Shi’a Muslim imam as he offered me soda before starting the interview. Realizing my tendency to stereotype, I saw that he was not at all the person I had pictured while on the phone with him just days earlier. His face was clean-shaven, and he wore a
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The Blues 0
- May/June 2012
- May 1, 2012
If you thought that Sunday &”blue&” laws were relics of the past, something that belongs in Norman Rockwell paintings of &”the good old days,&” then think again. A recently enacted North Dakota Sunday-closing law reads somewhat like the Jim Crow laws did in the old South in its somewhat archaic absolutism. The statute—&”12.1-30 SUNDAY CLOSING
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