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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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  • Require the Little Children0

    Thousands, if not millions, of American Christians have complained that their religious freedoms have been taken away because of court rulings restricting public school prayer. Yet many people believe that when prayer is mandatory in a nonprivate educational setting, it violates the religious freedom of others. Imagine a Buddhist, a Jew, an atheist, and a

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  • And the Crowd Roared "Freedom"0

    Lima, Peru, was host to the first World Festival of Religious Freedom. On June 13, 2009, more than 40,000 people came to the National Stadium to say publicly thank you to God and to the country of Peru for religious freedom. In doing so they made history! Such a mass meeting to celebrate an essential

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