When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
Though adults have the right to choose any method of healing, health care for children is different. The state has a responsibility to ensure the proper care of children. In this context, then, the crucial question is On what basis can the state ensure that when religious healing practices are involved, the children in question
READ MOREMystery Passage I found your article "Justice Kennedy's Mystery Passage" (July/August), to be quite fascinating. It was at least as fascinating as those various excursions in the past when, as you put it, jurisprudence gives way to metaphysics. To me, the stand-out example was Judge Brevard Hand's ruling that, in essence, declared "secular humanism" to
READ MOREFor years the Christian Right has warned that separation of church and state is eradicating Christianity from American life. In contrast, law professor Stephen Feldman warns that separation of church and state, in fact, subjugates minority faiths (especially the Jews) and ensures Christian cultural and political hegemony. "Significantly, in late-twentieth-century America," Feldman writes in Please
READ MOREIt was a night of anguish, of course at least I supposed it was, for it had all the symptoms of it but it passed at last, and the Christian Scientist came, and I was glad. She was middle-aged, and large and bony, and erect, and had an austere face and a resolute jaw and
READ MOREThere are a number of methods to test if an organization is a religion, and the method used may decide the answer to the inquiry. Four possible methods are as follows: 1. Examine the beliefs/structures/doctrines of the organization to see if they are analogous to more traditional religions. 2. Examine the intent of the organization's
READ MOREIf the tape of evangelist Pat Robertson telling a private meeting of Christian Coalition leaders that they needed to model their organization on the Tammany Hall political machine doesn't prove that the "Christian" of the Christian Coalition is false advertising nothing will. Tammany Hall, if you recall, was the New York Democratic Party organization whose
READ MORE"We Christians face persecution right here in America!" said the balding gentleman sitting to my right at a recent banquet. "It's true," the young mother across the table said. "I read about a high school in Michigan that was forced to take down a picture of Jesus that had been there for 30 years. It
READ MOREThe Jehovah's Witnesses The Jehovah's Witnesses–who had already faced persecution by a previous German administration (1933-1945)–report problems in two areas. The first is the dissemination by German states of "anticult" material that defames the church. The church has brought defamation suits against the purveyors of this information, and for now the practices have stopped. A
READ MORETrinity Western University (TWU), an institution of higher learning in Langley, British Columbia, was founded by the Evangelical Free Church of Canada (EFCA) in 1962 and incorporated as a nonprofit society. In 1969 the British Columbia legislature enacted the Trinity Junior College Act constituting TWU as a body corporate with the object of providing university
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