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  • The Kingdom0

    On one level, events of late have had a certain air of déjà vu for me. As a young man I followed the events leading up to the decision to impeach President Nixon. The story line was a bit like a John Le Carré spy novel, involving as it did money payoffs by courier, a

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  • ​Christians, Citizenship, and Rights0

    We live in a society that is increasingly being defined by the struggle for rights and access to the public square. The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed the watershed of the civil rights movement, which has defined contemporary America up to this moment. The civil rights movement continues to branch out into other

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  • ​A Living Rebuke0

    As World War II was nearing its end, and the conundrum of an Eastern Europe “liberated” from Hitler by the Soviet Union was becoming a hot-button issue, Winston Churchill warned Soviet dictator Josef Stalin about the power of the Catholic Church in these countries. Without missing a beat, Stalin countered, “How many divisions does the

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  • ​A Climate of Fear0

    Looking for a “hook,” an attention-grabbing story to use as an introduction for this essay, I found so many extreme weather events in 2017-2019 that I was at a loss for which one to pick. In their sheer destructiveness, they were all devastatingly similar. And the responses of the people who went through them were terrifyingly

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  • ​A Matter of Honor0

    It was one of those “by invitation only” events. A special, select group alone could attend: military people, journalists, and a few notables. However, a large crowd of the unchosen gathered outside the walls, making its presence known with shouts of “Death to the Jew!” and “Death to Judas!” The mob numbered in the thousands,

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  • ​The Quiet Revolution0

    I was born in a place where the atmosphere had no oxygen. Where organized religion was, and still is, the substitute for air, water, food, and the social contract. Lebanon, my birthplace, is a country like no other: a black hole of multiple religions and sects coalescing into a hot pot, which is at a

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