When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
My hometown newspaper recently published a letter entitled "Christians Will Retake the Nation." The writer made statements such as: "Once again the voice of the Christian is heard in the land, and it frightens those whose letters drip with hate. They are frightened of us . . . . Christians have once again found their
READ MORE"Something there is that doesn't love a wall," wrote the famous New England poet Robert Frost. Certainly that is an apt description of the attitude many fundamentalist Christians have developed toward the "wall of separation" between church and state. Many Christian leaders and organizations have adopted the position that the concept of separation of church
READ MOREFrom left to right:The IRLA/Liberty team met with the minister of religion for Myanmar. – Tsunami destruction in Sri Lanka. – Editor Steed and Dr John Graz meet with the woman who directs the Bible Society in Sri Lanka. – Children at an orphanage in Colombo, Sri Lanka, run by a Buddhist monk. Some of
READ MOREIn recent years we have been seriously concerned, in the United States, with the preservation of our religious liberties. For the most part this inter
READ MOREAmericans who are curious about such things often ask how the Canadian constitution creates a separation between church and state. In Canada, religious liberty rights are guaranteed in two different sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 2(a) of the charter indicates that everyone has "freedom of conscience and religion." Section 15 provides
READ MOREThe Reverend Rick Scarborough is a Texas minister with big dreams of the national stage. Welcoming attendees to a recent gathering in Washington, D.C., the stocky ex-college football player said bluntly, "This is perhaps the most important conference in the city of Washington this year." The topic of this momentous occasion wasn't terrorism, the economy,
READ MOREWe're certain we have rights that government must respect: the freedom to say what we want and believe what we wish; to go where we please and keep the company we choose; the right to marry our love, to have children, and to raise them as we see fit. We figure we have a right
READ MOREWhatever happened to religious freedom in America? After all, isn't it preaxiomatic that a church has the right to determine for itself what is required for membership? If the free exercise clause means anything, it means that a church should be able to require any kind of belief, no matter how ludicrous. If it wants
READ MORESince the evening of September 11, 2001, when George W. Bush quoted Psalm 23 and declared the day's events to be the opening salvo of a cosmic struggle of good versus evil, there has been a heated public debate about his openly religious language. Standard and appropriate, or unusual and dangerous? The latter, say more
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