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  • Beyond Zero Sum0

    Can we protect both public health and freedom of religious conscience when it comes to vaccine mandates? We’re almost two years into the pandemic caused by COVID-19, and among the many still-contested questions is how businesses and organizations can best protect both their employees and their communities.Vaccine mandates are still generating pushback and vaccine hesitancy

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  • Paradox of Christian Privilege0

    Does state support for Christianity help the church flourish? Or hasten its decline?  Illustration by Jon Krause Thirty years ago the people of Zambia elected Frederick Chiluba, an evangelical Christian, to be the country’s new president. Chiluba strongly believed in the integration of faith and politics, declaring in his first presidential address that Zambia would

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  • Playing the Game0

    In my previous job as a religious freedom advocate on Capitol Hill, I once got into conversation with someone whose approach to advocacy, frankly, defied common sense. He represented a minority faith, the Sikhs—a numerically tiny religious community that’s a mere footnote in the religious demographics of most countries. Yet, despite their small numbers, they

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  • Wired for Tyranny?0

    In the West we often take technology for granted. We grow frustrated when the internet at home or the office goes down, even if only for a few moments. We grow impatient when we can’t quickly find what we are looking for online. We become outraged when technology companies seem to routinely misapply their content

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  • An Artful Dodger0

    Growing up in the 1980s, like countless elementary school students before me, I played dodgeball whenever going outside was not an option. We chose teams, lined up in the gym, and hurled soft(ish) balls at each other, and whoever did not get hit was crowned the victor. It was just one of the many Darwinian

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  • Freedom’s Envoy0

    Sam Brownback has a habit of defying expectations. His childhood on his parents’ farm in the tiny community of Parker, Kansas—population 277— offered few hints he would someday represent his state in the U.S. Congress, first in the House of Representatives and later in the Senate, before coming home to serve as the state’s forty-sixth

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