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  • Oklahoma Promotes “Religious Liberty and Patriotism”0

    Oklahoma has created a new office within its Education Department to “protect parents, teachers, and students’ abilities to practice their religion freely in all aspects” and “oversee the investigation of abuses to individual religious freedom or displays of patriotism.” In his November press release State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said the office will

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  • Baptism as Revolution0

    This year marks 500 years since a largely forgotten act of defiance helped birth modern religious freedom. Baptism as an act of political revolution? It certainly was viewed as such 500 years ago in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, where Anabaptist leader Conrad Grebel and his companions debated with Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli the question

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  • Enforcing the “Law of God”0

    How Afghanistan became the world’s largest prison for women and girls. In the summer of 2021, U.S. and NATO troops scrambled to exit Afghanistan, leaving behind a fragile democratically elected government and a country in turmoil. Sima Samar, Afghanistan’s former minister of women’s affairs, along with women’s rights scholar Dyan Mazurana, describe what happened next.

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  • Preaching Politics0

    Does a 70-year-old tax code provision known as the Johnson Amendment protect America’s houses of worship? Or unconstitutionally restrain them? Local church pastor Stephen Cook provides a view from the pulpit. The Apostle Paul may have been the original church gossip. Allow me to explain. “Gossip,” before it came to its current meaning, had a

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  • Will the Safety Valve Hold?0

    As a nation we’re on the cusp of a dark new era of religious persecution—or at least that’s the impression I get when I read fundraising emails sent from various religious liberty advocacy groups. “Our freedoms are on the line!” warns one message. “Are you concerned about the erosion of religious liberty?” asks another. “Your

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  • History Lies We Tell0

    The present-day dangers of distorting America’s past. By Warren Throckmorton and Michael CoulterIllustration by Brian Stauffer Worship music played softly in the background. Microphone in hand, a casually dressed man proclaimed to the attentive crowd, “The number-one qualification for being mayor of Tulsa is that I am an unashamed follower of Jesus.” The congregation erupted

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