When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
The middle years of this decade, 2005-2007, see the 350th anniversary of three very significant episodes in the history of political and religious liberty: The English intervention in the Principality of Savoy-Piedmont (the forerunner of modern Italy) to halt persecution of the Waldenses––arguably the first humanitarian intervention in history; The readmission of the Jews into
READ MOREOn March 28, 2006, a court in Hamburg, Germany, sentenced a 43-year-old father to a week in jail because his three older children, aged 10, 12, and 14, have not attended school for four years. Instead, he has taught them at home. If, despite the jail term, he still boycotts the state school, his wife
READ MOREIllustration By James Mellett The woman sitting to my left at the May 2 CARE Act Rally in the Hart Senate building turned out to be from a Christian community aid program in Phoenix, Arizona. By her wide-eyed intensity I had picked her to be of the mind-set I'd observed before in various multilevel marketing
READ MOREMy wife and I had just bought an aging Toyota in fairly good working order, for a reasonable price. After our busy week of car hunting and a full work schedule, we decided to unwind over lunch that Friday afternoon at a new Korean restaurant in town. For a while we were the only customers
READ MOREWith all the sincerity of that recent box-office superstar, Chicken Little, Abraham D. Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith came out swinging against so-called evangelical Christians who support Israel. The tolerant sky, he says, is falling! These largely conservative, Bible-oriented believers who want to "Christianize" America, Mr. Foxman asserts are bent on "converting"
READ MOREJust a few days ago I walked alongside my father as hospital orderlies wheeled him into the operating room for rather serious surgery*. He had been very ill for a week or two and I don't think he had much sense of current world events. But his mind was active and he couldn't stop talking
READ MOREDuring the night of March 27, 2005, large graffiti was written on the walls of the Adventist Theological College in Belgrade, Serbia, with these words: "Death to Adventists" and "Death to Sabbatarians." In 2004, 26 Adventist churches and institutions were attacked. In all, more than 100 incidents targeting religious minorities were recorded that year. Similar
READ MOREIt's no surprise that the many Seventh-day Adventists here tonight seek the freedom to practice their faith—after all, Adventists have often faced serious discrimination around the world. What is remarkable, what is truly impressive about your work, is that you seek freedom not just for people of your faith, but also for those of all
READ MOREMore than a capacity audience jammed the historic Senate Caucus Room, part of the U.S. Capitol complex, May 4, 2006, to honor religious freedom and give honor to those leading out in its advancement. The event was the fourth annual religious freedom dinner, sponsored by Liberty magazine, the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA), and the
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