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  • Time for Witness0

    A student accused of “disorderly conduct” for sharing faith on campus can sue college police, rules 8-1 Supreme Court. In a victory for the First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that a college student cited by campus police for “disorderly conduct” for speaking about his Christian faith and distributing religious literature on campus

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  • Bill Protects the Vulnerable0

    Dignity, Respect, and Protection from Discrimination Public opinion in America around LGBT civil rights has undergone something of a revolution over the past decade. It’s a shift that has been driven in large part by heightened awareness of the legal vulnerabilities faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans. According to recent polling data,

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  • Religion and the Significant Other0

    Illustration by Scott Bakal If God is male, then the male is God,” a feminist theologian once remarked. Quite an overreaction: but maybe an insight into an all too human dilemma, often projected onto the world of faith. Throughout history—history being a reliable laboratory of the human condition—the male of our species, empowered by culture,

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  • My Kingdom…0

    This article is the latest in a series addressing changes in church and state relations in America. Because of the great influence of Christianity in America since the Colonial Era and onward, this article distinguishes between Christianity that adheres more closely to its biblical roots and that in unfortunate times in the history of Western

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  • The Darkness Drops Again0

    Those words come from William Butler Yeats 1919 poem “The Second Coming.” He wrote it immediately after the Great War—expected to be, hoped to be, by many, the last war. (So much for hope over realism.) He also wrote it just after the so-called Spanish flu had killed as many as 50 million worldwide and

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  • Crucified Twice0

    How too many modern-day believers succumbed to the lure of political power and lost the essence of the Gospel  Illustration by John Williams How did a democracy, whose Statue of Liberty represents a beacon of freedom to the world, find itself in a fulcrum of chaos and misdirection following a fair democratic election, judged so

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