When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
Late last year in Paris and San Bernardino, and then this year in Brussels, the West was violently introduced to the type of terrorism that has plagued the Middle East in recent years. The attacks, carried out by people who had entered France and the United States legally, were a vivid reminder to Americans of
READ MOREWhen I was informed by family members that Elder John V. Stevens had passed away on Friday evening, November 30, 2015, I sat down, took in a deep breath, and reflected on the many years I had listened to him preach and teach, the many times he had helped and trained me to mediate workplace
READ MOREWhen Maria Goldstein ordered 500 copies of a flyer at Office Depot online on August 20, 2015, she was in for a big surprise. The flyer was meant to be handed out in conjunction with a weeklong prayer and fasting campaign at her church aimed at educating people and changing opinions about abortion. It contained
READ MORERoger Williams, after his banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, had but one great objective to which he devoted the rest of his life, and that was to establish a government in America that might become the model for future generations, and also to create an asylum for the oppressed and persecuted of every religious
READ MOREOn July 6, 1415, in Konstanz, Germany, the cathedral was filled to capacity. The air was heavy as Jacob Balardi Arrigoni, bishop of Lodi, preached from the text “that the body of sin be destroyed” (Rom. 6:6). Cardinals, replete with miters, sat in a semicircle around a man in chains, his body emaciated from hunger
READ MOREHe was pugnacious. He was opinionated. He was humorous, but dangerous when provoked. And he had become an institution in himself. I’m talking, of course, of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month at 79— at the time the longest serving member of the current court, being appointed justice in 1986.
READ MOREThe late years of the nineteenth century and even the early ones of the twentieth were filled with the promise of a better, more hopeful future. “Therefore, gentlemen,” declared Werner von Siemens (founder of the company that still bears his name) in the late nineteenth century, “we will not be shaken in our belief that
READ MORE{image1} In the aftermath of violence and the flood of anti-Muslim rhetoric that has followed, there have been many wonderful statements of solidarity with religious freedom. Liberals and conservatives, religious and secular—there is an amazing consensus rejecting religious bigotry and hatred. It is not only the atrocity in San Bernardino that is beyond words. It
READ MOREIn the past a majority of the 60 million Christians in the United States have voted for candidates they believed were morally superior. But how do you determine what makes a morally superior candidate? Is it enough to be against abortion, partial birth abortion, gay marriage, and stem cell research that destroys human embryos, and
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