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  • Patriotism Health Check0

    Illustration by Robert Hunt Love of country or harmful nationalism? National pride or idolatry?  Amid all the political acrimony of recent years, no concept has been the target of more debate and fury than “Christian nationalism.”  A steady stream of books and articles have blamed Christian nationalists for all manner of ills in America, ills

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  • Jokers, Clowns, and Purists0

    Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right; here I am, stuck in the middle with you,” sang Scottish folk-rock band Stealers Wheel. It’s a song that has been used by everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Sacha Baron Cohen to put a bit of punch into their movies. It also pops up with

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  • A Duty to Kill?0

    Illustration by Michael Glenwood A California law gives a new spin to the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm.” The test results come back, and they’re not good. Your doctor explains that the cancer has advanced and that the chemo and radiation can do nothing, at this point, to help you. You probably have less

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  • Free to Tweet?0

    Content Moderation, Religious Freedom, and the Digital Public Square If religious freedom is advocated only for pragmatic reasons, it can and will be sacrificed to expediency.”1 Those words, spoken in 1983 by the late evangelical theologian and ethicist Carl F. H. Henry, were prophetic. They foreshadowed much of what was to come after his death

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  • ‘We Need to See Each Other Differently’0

    In the high-stakes world of international religious freedom advocacy, simply changing laws isn’t enough.  In 1998 the U.S. Congress took an extraordinary step toward recognizing the importance of international religious freedom. Along with other measures, Congress created an independent, bipartisan body called the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, or USCIRF. Its task? To monitor

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  • Salvaging a Culture War Casualty0

    Why should social justice be cast as incompatible with Christianity?  Even a cursory reading of the Bible leads to the conclusion that justice for the poor and oppressed is of vital importance to God. Speaking through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord rebuked the religionists who enthusiastically engaged in worship rituals while neglecting the injustice all

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