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  • Beyond Death with Dignity0

    Dr. Andrew Gotts[0] is a neurologist who practices in Washington State. Among his patients are some who have ALS (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease). During his career he has often had to deal with the complex issues that patients and their families face when ALS progresses to the terminal phase in which the patient's body slowly

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  • Alive and Kicking0

    People who believe there's no prayer in public schools need to talk with 16-year old Jessie Doerrer. For the Bowie, Maryland, high school junior, religion isn't something to be confined to one day a week. Doerrer believes in integrating her Christian beliefs into everyday life–and that includes her time at public school. On school days

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  • Through the Back Door0

    Luther on Church and State Many erroneously believe that Martin Luther approved of or even designed Germany's state-church system. On the contraryhe actually attempted to protect the church from state interference. In the 1520s he developed the "two kingdoms" or "two regiments"2 position. Specifically he divided the functions of church and state according to spiritual

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  • This Headline is False0

    U.S. Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist's dissent in Wallace v. Jaffree (472 U.S. 38), 1985, is considered by many (see p. ?) one of the best historical defenses of a limited view of the reach and meaning of the Establishment Clause, a view that's increasingly gaining ground in American jurisprudence. Included in his dissent is

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  • Obiter0

    Though not exactly the Transfiguration, what I experienced from these words (by astrophysicist John Gribbin in Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality) was, nevertheless, almost epiphany: "In very round terms, the quantum world operates on a scale as much smaller than a sugar cube as a sugar cube is compared with the entire observable

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  • Christianity (Protestant, Evangelical) 1010

    For more than two years the Gulf Coast community of Lee County, Florida, has been in a fracas over the school board's proposal to offer high school students a "Bible history" course based on a curriculum developed by a North Carolina group linked with the Religious Right. What began as (supposedly) a neutral effort to

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  • Who Really "Changed" the Sabbath?0

    "The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. We say by virtue of her divine mission, because He who called Himself the 'Lord of the Sabbath,' endowed her with His own power to teach, 'he that

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  • Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth0

    Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky don't appear in the following case. Not a breath of illicit sex taints the record. Nobody's going to get kissed or propositioned against his or her will. If your kids sneak a look at this article, they won't ask about words you don't want in their vocabulary until they're senior

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  • The Good Old Days0

    The summer of 1886 was a bad time for Charles B. Reynolds. The iconoclastic religious skeptic (and former Methodist minister) took his free-thought message to Boonton, New Jersey. If Reynolds expected Boontonians to abandon Christianity and embrace free thought, he must have been disappointed. Instead, an unruly mob pelted him with rotten eggs, tore down

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