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- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
Teresa Brown, raised by hardworking Seventh-day Adventist parents in California, was used to jumping through hoops to avoid working on Saturdays, her day of worship. At one of her first jobs, scooping ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins store, the manager kept scheduling her to work on Saturdays, and she repeatedly had to ask the owner
READ MOREMore subconsciously than consciously (perhaps), I’d had always been a seeker, and part of my quest had manifested itself as a wanderlust, which in the late 1970s led me to a kibbutz in Galilee called Gadot.(Back then, a lot of wandering souls looking for the meaning of life, or seeking to find themselves, or whatever,
READ MOREWhen Indiana governor Mike Pence held a press conference in order to clarify the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act , criticism became viral. There has been ever more discussion and criticism of the law since. These RFRA fights are the definition of a church-state/religious freedom issue, and I felt compelled to write about it. However,
READ MOREDuring an era when the British Empire had spread its influence to all corners of the globe, lining their pockets with wealth and ancient artifacts, it is perhaps comic retribution that one of Britain’s most enduring imperial-era legacies in Central America is what we remember from a bumbling English novelist and failed spy. The seriousness
READ MOREThe United States of America was founded upon a singularly bold premise: Those who founded our nation declared that we are endowed by our Creator with rights and that God stands with those who seek to maintain this grant of liberty for future generations. Yet today, as Americans struggle over the text of the Pledge
READ MOREA presenter at a conference on religious liberty recently told a story about a woman from east central Texas he met on an airplane. The woman was complaining loudly about the Supreme Court decision prohibiting prayer over the public address systems at Texas public high school football games. He explained to her that he had
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