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  • Matters of Faith0

    What is faith? What is religion? These questions are not as easily answered as you think. Faith—Jesus told His disciples that there would not be much of it around when He returns at the end of days. Religion—sometimes there seems too much of it. Especially in government as it relates to the safety issue of

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  • Freedom Challenge0

    When our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they designed a government that, at the time, was a unique government. Since that time, it has served as an example for nations across the globe. This new government set a definite boundary line of jurisdiction which the government itself was not to cross. However, over the course

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  • Affirming Freedom0

    The Sixth World Congress organized by the International Religious Liberty Association was its first world congress organized in Africa, and the biggest yet, with more than 600 attendees from all over the world. Our two previous congresses (Rio de Janeiro in 1997) and (Manila in 2002) had a little more than 350 participants. This time

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  • A Necessary Conversation0

    Religious liberty is more than the freedom to believe. It is also the freedom to let believe. Religious liberty is more than the freedom to evangelize. Religious liberty is also the responsibility to find the common ground even as you evangelize: that religious liberty has to assert the great spirituality of all human beings while

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  • Tumults, Riots, and Seditions0

    The European wars of religion, which followed the Reformation and raged roughly from the early mid-sixteenth century to the later mid-seventeenth century, were marked by a range of atrocities, all carried out in the name of Christianity. Later generations realized the incongruity and attempted to shift the culpability for the violence to one side or

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  • The Scripturally Informed Conscience0

    The road from the Protestant Reformation to the religious freedom of the American republic was full of unexpected turns, switchbacks, and delays. The ambiguities, tensions, and paradoxes within church/state thought are seen starkly at the second Diet of Speyer in 1529—the event which birthed the term "Protestant." The Diet, or gathering of German nobility, was

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