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  • The Bigger Win0

    The Mustangs, Oakwood Adventist Academy’s varsity boys’ basketball team, was having an excellent season. In fact, the best season in the team’s history. By February 2022, for the first time ever, they’d fought their way to the semifinals of the state championship. They were prepared, focused, and eager to travel to Jacksonville, Alabama, for their

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  • Solution or Sellout?0

    Can America navigate the cultural conflict around marriage, religious freedom, and LGBTQ nondiscrimination? With the Respect for Marriage Act, Congress moves beyond a winner-take-all approach. The current political toxicity in Washington, D.C., means that every question of public policy attracts stridently different interpretations from both left and right. So the level of inflam­matory, contradictory messaging

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  • Religious Free Speech at a Crossroads0

    In 303 Creative v. Elenis the Supreme Court again enters the legal and cultural minefield of LGBTQ nondiscrimination and claims of faith. Last November the Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act, codifying same-sex marriage into federal law and requiring states to recognize such unions if they are legal where they were entered. The bill also

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  • Lessons from Bonhoeffer0

    Learning to put God and others—rather than self—at the heart of religious freedom In January 2017, four days after the inauguration of the then-president of the United States, the first class meeting of my spring-term course at Harvard Divinity School focused on the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian of the 1930s

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  • Hidden and Alone0

    The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban has ushered in a dangerous new era for Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and minority Islamic sects. The dramatic fall of Afghanistan’s capital to rapidly moving Taliban forces came on August 15, 2021. Within a matter of weeks the Taliban army had conquered the country, reestablishing their presence as the

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  • Freedom For or Freedom From Religion?0

    The annual National Prayer Breakfast, attended by every U.S. president since 1953, acts as a national Rorschach test. How we look at it depends on how we answer a simple question: What role, if any, should religion play in the civic life of our country? Does the event harmlessly celebrate the diverse faith traditions of

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