When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
The Eleventh Annual Religious Liberty Dinner took place on April 18, 2013, at the Canadian Embassy—again. It’s always good to be invited back to meet with friends, especially when there is something to share. Last year Canadian foreign minister John Baird spoke to the Adventist-sponsored group that as usual included a good mixture of the
READ MOREAdvocates of religious freedom, be they genuine or merely self-designated, are astir in America just now. And many are deeply worried. They perceive a secular tide in the land, threatening to stifle the voice and visible practice of faith, at least the conservative kind. When he was president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,
READ MOREThe scene has been repeated so often in Pakistan in the past several years that the word “shocking” is no longer applicable, because it’s no longer shocking, just (sadly), tragically predictable. As for the perpetrators, the only thing that changes is the name of the so-called Muslim extremist group that proudly takes responsibility for the
READ MORERecent events have called into question just how much progress humankind has made. The April 15, 2013, bombing in Boston, Massachusetts, disrupted more than just a marathon; it caused several fatalities, including the death of a child, and maimed and injured more than 100 others. Along with the immediate task of coping with yet another
READ MOREModern democracy is the product of centuries of struggle. Thousands of brave men and women have laid down their lives in the cause of freedom. It is significant that it is just 100 years ago that one of America’s most notable martyrs to freedom of the press, Elijah Lovejoy, paid the supreme sacrifice in freedom’s
READ MOREMore than a century before Ohio science teacher John Freshwater found himself at the center of a battle over academic freedom in the classroom, namely, whether he has a right to urge his students to think critically about topics such as evolution, John T. Scopes faced a similar firing squad. In Scopes’ case, however, he
READ MOREOn March 27, 2013, in the northern Italian city of Ferrara, Patrizia Moretti stepped out into the public square near her office building, unfurled a poster-sized portrait of her dead son Federico Aldrovandi, and showed it to the crowd of protesters. The photograph was so unpleasant that some of the protesters doubted its authenticity and
READ MOREWhen Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast last October, it did some damage to the Reverend Mark Lukens’ Bethany Congregational Church in East Rockaway, New York. Many property owners in the area need some assistance to rebuild. That doesn’t mean, however, that Lukens is expecting a government handout for his church. “It is bad for
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