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  • Solution or Sellout?0

    Can America navigate the cultural conflict around marriage, religious freedom, and LGBTQ nondiscrimination? With the Respect for Marriage Act, Congress moves beyond a winner-take-all approach. The current political toxicity in Washington, D.C., means that every question of public policy attracts stridently different interpretations from both left and right. So the level of inflam­matory, contradictory messaging

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  • Snatched From the Jaws of Death0

    Two young men convicted of blasphemy. An intrepid band of lawyers prepared to step into danger. International human rights lawyer Kola Alapinni shares a firsthand account of the struggle to appeal a death sentence imposed under the Sharia penal code laws of northern Nigeria. It all began in the pandemic year. The looming threat of

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  • Slouching Toward Democratic Totalitarianism0

    When we were brought face to face with tyranny—with a kind of tyranny [Communism, Fascism and Nazism] that surpassed the boldest imagination of the most powerful thinkers of the past,” wrote Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century’s leading political philosophers, “our political science failed to recognize it.”1 Actually many leading intellectuals of the twentieth

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  • Slouching Toward Capernaum0

    People with strong convictions of any kind often function best when believing themselves under siege. So long as it is believed that contemporary trends and prevailing forces are inflicting notable harm on one’s cherished values, justification for one’s persistence in proffering and practicing an alternative is easily found. This is even truer in the religious

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  • Skewered!0

    Chewed Out! Your article "Consenting Adults" (March/April) has nothing to do with the separation of church and state. These moral issues come under the rightful domain of civil law. If a place such as the sex club referred to in this piece is a legal business, its existence makes socially destructive behavior appear common and

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  • Sing Me a Song of Freedom0

    The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been a forceful advocate of religious liberty in the United States since its inception nearly 150 years ago. In step with celebrating this commitment, the Church’s Central California Conference Department of Education hosted a tribute concert for World War II veterans to honor the sacrifice they made to protect liberty

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