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  • Political Power and the Pulpit0

    The other day I heard something on the car radio that made me think that I had somehow passed through a wormhole and entered into an alternate universe. It was a National Public Radio report about a church that was in danger of having its tax-exemption status revoked because of partisan politics from the pulpit.

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  • Tempting Fate0

    Way back when we first heard the war drums for an invasion of Iraq, I had an interesting email exchange with a nationally known television pundit who has written for Liberty in the past. "You need to write something for us before the crusaders are marching through downtown Baghdad," I wrote tongue in check, with

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  • The Political Utility of Religious Pluralism0

    On the eve of October 12, 539 B.C. (Tishri 16), the inhabitants of Babylon rested in ease and security. It was a grand city not far down the river Euphrates from the site of present-day Baghdad. In the festal hall of King Nabonidus' summer palace, his son, Belshazzar, who had been appointed as prince regent,

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  • Editorial – Faith and Law0

    Illustration By James Mellett The woman sitting to my left at the May 2 CARE Act Rally in the Hart Senate building turned out to be from a Christian community aid program in Phoenix, Arizona. By her wide-eyed intensity I had picked her to be of the mind-set I'd observed before in various multilevel marketing

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  • Present Christ0

    Behind the lectern and the platform seating area of the little Seventh-day Adventist church in Debary, Florida, is a quite striking stained glass window. I had seen it once or twice before, but had never really looked at it till that afternoon memorial service four days after my father's death. My task was to present

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  • The New Bible Wars0

    Over the past year, new fights have broken out in states across the nation about Bible courses in public schools. Competing "Bible bills" have popped up in various state legislatures, with Republicans and Democrats vying to see who can thump the Bible the loudest. First prize goes to Georgia Republicans. In March 2006 the Georgia

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