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  • The True Believer0

    The other day I listened spellbound to an interview with Alvin Toeffler, author of the seminal book "Future Shock." It does seem that we are living through many of his prognostications. The societal shifts and dislocations of the modern age explain in large measure the current religious agitation—whether it is Islamic radicalism in the Middle

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  • Round Table For Religion0

    Rome has long cultivated an image as a gathering point for religious power. And of course that power at times has been biased toward a single viewpoint. Not so the "Fourth Interparliamentary Conference on Human Rights and Religious Freedom," organized by the Washington, D.C. based Institute on Religion and Public Policy and its president Joseph

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  • Revisiting Everson: Thrown Off Course0

    The United States of America was founded upon a singularly bold premise: Those who founded our nation declared that we are endowed by our Creator with rights and that God stands with those who seek to maintain this grant of liberty for future generations. Yet today, as Americans struggle over the text of the Pledge

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  • Not So Spiritual Marriage0

    For months he kept Osama bin Laden company on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Then, on the quiet evening of August 28, 2006, Nevada State Trooper Eddie Dutchover pulled over a 2007 Cadillac Escalade on Interstate 15 north of Las Vegas during a routine traffic stop. In the back seat, his carotid artery pumping

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  • Much Ado About Something0

    On September 12, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI provided what could easily be described as the most important speech of the twenty-first century. To an audience gathered at Regensburg University in Germany, Benedict with startling precision stated not only that "violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul," but also

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  • Focused on Freedom0

    It has taken centuries for a true recognition of the fact that religious freedom is a fundamental freedom and a basic human right. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written and adopted by acclamation by the United Nations in 1948, after the tragedy of World War II. Article 18 gives one of the best

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  • Conversion And Conflict0

    When convicted terrorist bomber Richard Reid attempted to explode a shoe-bomb on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami, the first reaction was Why?—for he did not fit the stereotype. Only as investigators followed the trail from Reid's birthplace in Bromley, England, to the plane over the Atlantic did answers slowly emerge. One of

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  • The Protocols of Hate0

    They say Jewish bankers were responsible for putting Hitler in power? Did you know the Jews were behind the Communist conspiracy to subdue the West? Did you hear that HIV was spread in Chicago by Jewish doctors purposely infecting children with the virus? Did you know that the Jews are engaged in a plot to

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  • The Passion of Mel0

    By now the summer of 2006 has faded into memory, and what a summer it was! First, there was the Israel-Hezbollah war, the foiled Muslim terrorist plot to blow up airlines heading to the United States, Iran's continued defiance of United Nations' mandates to stop uranium enrichment, and the airline crash in Kentucky. And of

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