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  • It’s All About Me0

    How the culture wars are redefining evangelicals and religious liberty.Illustrations by Jon Krause This November, roughly 82 percent of evangelical voters are expected to cast their votes for Donald Trump. However implausible evangelical support for Trump seemed in 2015 when he first ran for the Republican nomination, evangelicals have become his most loyal supporters. So

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  • Gen Z Has Arrived. Now What?0

    A group of Christian college students consider the intersection of faith and civic duty. Gen Z voters are preparing to make their mark in November’s presidential election with a projected 7 to 9 million new voters, born between 1997 and 2013, set to cast their first ballot. In all, there are a staggering 40 million

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  • Case in Point Sept/Oct 20240

    In Maine, Battle Continues Over State Funding for Religious Schools Can Maine require religious schools to adopt LGBTQ nondiscrimination policies as a condition of receiving state funds via a tuition assistance program? The answer, according to a recent federal court ruling, is “Yes—for now.” This is the latest development in an ongoing saga that kicked

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  • America’s Spiritual Warriors0

    What helped fuel the toxic blend of religious and political fervor displayed by some on January 6, 2021? For anyone seeking answers, The New Apostolic Reformation may be the most important movement you’ve never heard of. Illustrations by Scott Bakal There’s an insurgent new political force in American Christianity that is bringing about a powerful

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  • A Warning From the Past0

    Seventh-day Adventist editor Joseph Waggoner was a firsthand witness to the threats to civil and religious liberties in America from the 1850s to the 1880s. He was not blind to the faults he saw in a Southern-controlled Congress. In 1858 he condemned the federal government for its “slaveocratic practices” and declared that in Congress, the

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  • A Religious Freedom Voting Guide0

    In the coming election, if you truly care about religious freedom, you’ll vote Republican. Unless, of course, you’re concerned about Christian nationalism and Project 2025 and its goal of Christianizing America through law, in which case you’ll vote Democrat. However, if you’re alarmed that young people in public schools are being exposed to militant secular

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  • The X Factor0

    Mapping the unique experiences of women and religious persecution What do these individuals have in common? Gulmira Amin. Wife and moderator of a Uyghur news and cultural website who is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity and protesting against the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghurs. She is serving a 20-year sentence in the Xinjiang Women’s Prison.

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  • Religion Goes to the Games0

    The more than 10,000 Olympic athletes competing in the Paris Olympic Games this summer will have access to more than just sports doctors, physiotherapists, and masseuses. They’ll also have the option to receive spiritual care. The Paris Games organizing committee has credentialed some 120 chaplains representing Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. In a large

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  • Reflections of a Recovering Prime Minister0

    Interview with former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison. On the wall of his office in Australia’s Parliament House, Scott Morrison hung a framed newspaper dated May 1, 2019, proclaiming: “ScoMo’s Miracle!” It was a headline that appeared the morning after Morrison’s poll- and pundit-defying election to Australia’s top political job. The evening before, Morrison had

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