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  • Danger and Opportunity0

    I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Behind the harsh appearances of the world there is a benign power. To say God is personal is not to make him an object among other objects or attribute to

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  • Church-State Separation0

    Thomas Jefferson observed: &”It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.&” Many Americans today seem to disagree with Jefferson’s political philosophy that religious belief should not be an issue in judging a candidate’s fitness to be president.

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  • An Open Letter to America0

    &”Say not the struggle nought availeth, the labour and the wounds are vain, the enemy faints not, nor faileth, and as things have been, things remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; it may be, in yon smoke concealed, your comrades chase e’en now the fliers, and, but for you, possess the field.

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  • Accommodating Religious Objections0

    Anyone who has kept up on current events knows about the proposed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations that were announced in January. Designed to implement parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they required employers to include contraception services in the health insurance plans they offered their employees. The primary objection to

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  • A Series of Unfortunate Events0

    Thirty years ago, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Widmar v. Vincent,1 holding that the free speech clause protects citizens’ religious speech, including religious worship. Such an unremarkable proposition should have been greeted by good-natured agreement that free speech and religious liberty principles—indeed, pluralism itself—require nothing less than full protection for citizens’ religious

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  • When Faith and Tradition Are Threatened0

    Muslims and Jews in Holland and in California united in 2011 in opposing political attacks on their joint religious traditions of circumcision, and their religious ways of killing animals for use as food. Several Christian groups, concerned that secular and humanistic political values were being used to coerce religious expression, also joined the protest. In

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