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  • Which Judeo-Christian Tradition?0

    Many of those who believe the government should take on the task of promoting Christian morality are focusing their attention on the public schools. And why not, one might ask, since schools are plagued by crime and drugs. Seemingly only an atheistic killjoy could take pleasure in squelching an innocent public prayer in school. The

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  • The Best Schooling Possible0

    Which brings us to American parents' penchant for jettisoning their children when they should still be at the breast or in a high chair or working, playing, and learning with mother at home. The state of the family today is perilous; with child rejection leading regressively to family breakdown, divorce, mixed families, fatherless children, single

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  • How Then Shall We School?0

    Home schooling is all the rage nowadays. Thousands of parents are pulling their children out of public schools to try their own hand at teaching. In a spirit of self-reliance they become do-it-yourself professors. Some evangelical leaders are jumping on the home-schooling bandwagon. Exodus 2000 and Rescue 2010 are the most dramatic manifestations of a

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  • Tough Love0

    Today a wide spectrum of Christian activists–from Christian Right to Catholic Left–seeks morality through civil laws. Over the past two decades some of their names have become household words. Their quest is not new: as far back Constantine's Sunday law of A.D. 321 churches have sought to cure the evils of mankind through alliance with

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  • Op. Cit.0

    Clifford Goldstein makes some very good points in the matter of Christians loving their neighbor when he writes, "Thus, loving even those whose views oppose yours is about as fundamental as fundamental Christianity can get . . . Jesus never said to love your neighbor's beliefs, only your neighbor–a big difference" (THE LOGIC OF HATE,

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  • Protecting Free Exercise0

    For 10 years Grant Bennett and his fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) had been gathering in a simple meetinghouse for religious services in Belmont, Massachusetts. Then, in October of 1995, church officials decided the time had come to erect a proper church–an elaborate 70,000-square-foot temple with tall

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