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  • A Tale of Two Unions0

    Sharlene Harwood fell in love with a theology major in college. She married the pastor—and life has not been the same since. A pastor’s wife is not an easy status in which to live.  Life is carried out as in a fish bowl. People are always watching. Rightly or wrongly, she is seen as a

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  • The Conscience0

    &”The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. . . .  &”The good Samaritan represents the conscience of mankind because he also was obedient to that which could not be enforced. No law in the world could have produced

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  • The Question of the Common Good0

    For much of the twentieth century, observers of American political culture could dismiss apocalyptic prophecy as a preoccupation thriving only on the paranoid fringes of national life. Nearly a decade into the twenty-first century, though, such a view is long past. The phenomenal commercial success of the Left Behind books and films put the spotlight

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  • Labor Unions and Workers' Rites0

    Organized labor has lately been working to transform its political muscle into organizing muscle through something creatively captioned &”the Employee Free Choice Act&”—&”free choice&” meaning that employees would be forever barred from having a secret ballot vote on whether they wanted to be represented by a labor union. Political pundits have argued that the union

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  • Bull in the China Shop0

    I will never forget my visit to the Golden Temple of the Sikhs, in Amritsar, India. It was my first visit to that fascinating country and quite a few years before the Sikh rebellion and an Indian Army attack on the temple, the holiest site for the Sikh faith. Founded by Guru Nanak Dev (1669-1538),

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  • The Shaming of Religion0

    Religion and religious expression have been objects of censorship in the public schools for quite some time. However, the intolerance of anything related to religion has taken a turn for the absurd in recent years. Much of the credit for this state of affairs can be chalked up to those who have been relentlessly working

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