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  • Bull in the China Shop0

    I will never forget my visit to the Golden Temple of the Sikhs, in Amritsar, India. It was my first visit to that fascinating country and quite a few years before the Sikh rebellion and an Indian Army attack on the temple, the holiest site for the Sikh faith. Founded by Guru Nanak Dev (1669-1538),

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  • And the Crowd Roared "Freedom"0

    Lima, Peru, was host to the first World Festival of Religious Freedom. On June 13, 2009, more than 40,000 people came to the National Stadium to say publicly thank you to God and to the country of Peru for religious freedom. In doing so they made history! Such a mass meeting to celebrate an essential

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  • A Tale of Two Unions0

    Sharlene Harwood fell in love with a theology major in college. She married the pastor—and life has not been the same since. A pastor’s wife is not an easy status in which to live.  Life is carried out as in a fish bowl. People are always watching. Rightly or wrongly, she is seen as a

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  • What Are We Enhancing?0

    Thursday morning, July 30: The mainstream media and punditocracy continued to obsess over &”Gatesgate&” and that evening’s impending &”Beer Summit&” on the White House lawn. Meanwhile, in a barely reported story, U.S. district court judge Ellen Segal Huvelle finally ran out of patience with the U.S. Department of Justice over a human rights violation, compared

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  • The Victims of Religious Intolerance0

    Nations, factions, political groups, and even families go to war with each other to satisfy things like their greed, their pride, and their jealousy. They let their anger loose in hopes of power. In religious conflicts there is little difference; there is, of course, that extra goad of martyrdom and a sense of God’s reward

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  • Gods and Generals0

    Old World/New World disparity can be as different as treasured paintings on a crumbling church wall in Florence, Italy, and bulldozers leveling yet another graffiti-festooned 1970’s-era inner-city project in some big U.S. city. The Old World/New World split this magazine often deals with is one of escape: a spectrum of immigrants—refugees—fleeing religious intolerance and warfare.

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