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  • Tis the Season0

    By the People By Lincoln E. Steed A cold Christmas we had of it; what with plummeting economic indicators, spreading unemployment, tears to anthrax on even Christmas mail, and the prospect of continuing shocks in the ongoing war with terrorism. So much has changed in only a few months. And so much change continues to

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  • The 10-Foot Pole0

    Early last year Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, received a call from a press agency. The caller wanted someone in the seminary's administration to go on record supporting President George W. Bush's plan to fund faith-based organizations (FBOs). The presumption of the caller was that since Southern Seminary was under the auspices of

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  • No Right is an Island0

    No Right is an Island By Alan J. Reinach Post-September 11 polls show that Americans are all too willing to trade freedom for security. But what freedoms we will trade and what impact this will have on other freedoms remain an open question. Among those clamoring for greater security, there is only dim recognition that

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  • Liberty Versus Terror0

    Voices cry out from newspaper editorials and TV and radio talk shows daily-demanding what most of us took for granted prior to September l1, 200l-the safety and security of ourselves and our families. This end must be achieved, the majority agrees, regardless of the Impact on civil liberties. "I'm happy to give up some of

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  • Lead Us Not Into Temptation0

    The lure of government financial aid can be very tempting to cash-strapped sectarian educational institutions. The sad fact is that many church-affiliated colleges and universities have fallen victim to a watering or even elimination of the sectarian aspect of their programs to ensure con-state financial support. A Catholic leader wrote the following about the disastrous

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  • Family Matters0

    The home was not notorious in the community as an abusive one. In, fact, the family-members of a conservative Christian group called the Church of God, affiliated with the Mennonites-were known to their neighbors as a happy, law-abiding family with well adjusted children. However, on July 4, 2001, an attention-grabbing scene took place on the

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