The climax of The Merchant of Venice, one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies, is a court scene in which Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, is cunningly prevented from carving a pound of flesh from the body of the Christian Antonio. The spirited Portia, disguised as a male lawyer, explains that if Shylock wishes to claim the
READ MORESecular&” is not a bad word, as many religious people and some politicians believe. In fact, it is a good word and, properly understood, is useful to describe our political culture and church-state configuration. The December 17, 2011, Metro Section of the Washington Post contained two articles that illustrate what I mean. One was a
READ MOREPersecution of Christians is alive and well in Communist China; it became especially vicious, brutal, sadistic, and deadly during the Cultural Revolution. Check-Hung Yee, former Salvation Army official in China, now living in San Francisco, California, says that &”before the Cultural Revolution, there were approximately 1 million Christians. The new atheistic government eventually closed all
READ MOREIf 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
READ MOREI have become convinced that unless a certain historic awareness becomes a present preoccupation, then a once-great republic is destined for the worst of old ages—a certain dementia that combines lack of energy with violent irrationality. I thought about this dynamic in the long months taken up with the primaries that precede the presidential election.
READ MOREUnder the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010,1 all employer health-care plans must provide—at no cost to the employee—certain preventive services for women.2 The inclusion of contraceptives—including abortion-causing contraceptives—in this mandated coverage has caused a public uproar, with religious groups opposed to contraception and/or abortion decrying the violation of their religious freedom. The ACA is
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