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  • The American Advent of Benedict XVI0

    It wasn’t quite the Second Coming, but almost. For the six days in April that Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States, all the coverage, the hoopla, the accolades, the promotion, and the PR surrounding the visit could have led someone to believe that it had been Christ, and not His self-proclaimed vicar, who had

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  • ​The 25-Year Legacy of the Northwest Religious Liberty Association0

    Public Advocacy Because of their prophetic beliefs, Seventh-day Adventists have imagined a world without religious freedom perhaps more than most people of faith. Curiously this proclivity has at times led some Adventists to minimize the importance of religious freedom as a “public ministry.” Any group must reject tendencies toward public isolation and parochialism. In the

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  • The 10-Foot Pole0

    Early last year Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, received a call from a press agency. The caller wanted someone in the seminary's administration to go on record supporting President George W. Bush's plan to fund faith-based organizations (FBOs). The presumption of the caller was that since Southern Seminary was under the auspices of

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  • The "Holy Commonwealth"0

        Upon his arrival in Boston on February 5, 1631, Roger Williams was welcomed with open arms, and the ecclesiastical authorities invited him to succeed Mr. Wilson (who was about to return to England) as a teacher in the Boston church. The Boston Puritans believed their church to be the “most glorious on earth,”

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  • The (In)famous Jesuits?0

    The word “Jesuit” is often associated with great intellectual skill, cunning, and deception. In academics the Jesuits have long been recognized as the leading order within the Catholic Church that fulfills a predominantly educational mission. Unfortunately, their intellectual expertise has in the past been used to subvert intellectual discussion. From their intellectual wranglings with the

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  • The Road to Freedom0

    There was little fanfare when then President Obama signed the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) into law on December 16, 2016. He affixed his signature to the hard-won legislation along with some 50 other bills, ranging from the National Park Service Centennial Act to the Inspectors General Empowerment Act. Yet for the

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