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  • Christian Versus Muslim0

    This article is part four in a four part series. Read Part 3 The previous articles in this series on religious wars examined the ferocious 13 decades from the Protestant Reformation (c. 1520) to the Peace of Westphalia (1648), in which Europe was torn asunder by wars resulting from the post-Reformation fragmenting of Christendom. However,

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  • An Empty Gesture0

    One of its least important decisions ever in the jurisprudence of ‘church and state’&” is how Nathan Diament of the Orthodox Union described the Supreme Court’s decision in Salazar v. Buono, which is only the latest twist in a legal saga that has been going on for more than eight years.  What would cause a

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  • A Right to Faith?0

    In the "Live Free or Die" state they don't do things by halves, except when neither half agrees with the other. In a current case involving Amanda Kurowski, the 10-year-old Christian daughter of divorced parents who has been forced by a judge to stop homeschooling and attend public school, some say parental rights are the

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  • Watch His Conscience0

    The date was June 5, 1917, the first day of the draft. Sousa’s Band struck up &”Stars and Stripes Forever&” and the 6,000 in attendance at the American Medical Association Convention in New York City rose to their feet as former president Theodore Roosevelt walked across the stage. The United States had tried to avoid

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  • The European Holy Wars0

    This article is part three in a four part series. Read Part 2 Read Part 4 The second part of this five-part series on Europe’s wars of religion told the story of how, from the 1520s until approximately 1650, the greatest nations in Christendom—France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, the Dutch Republic, and Britain—were all caught

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  • No Safe Forum0

    The way President Barack Obama sees things, Americans should be able to find unity in prayer—even if they disagree on the details of faith and politics. That’s true in the current debates about health care, poverty, and even gay marriage, he said at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast. &”Surely we can agree to find common

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