"Give Us This Prayer"
- July/August 2010
- July 1, 2010
Götterdämmerung or Morte d’Arthur? Pardon my German and French—the significance is in the works of art they represent, not the languages. But first let me remark on the incredible events of May 6, 2010. We have been living in a financial house of cards since September 2008. We have become used to increasing unemployment, foreclosure
READ MOREThere is much religious intolerance in this new, twenty-first century. This is the tale of religious intolerance in an obscure country in East Africa called Eritrea. After fighting for its own freedom from Ethiopia for more than 30 years, this Marxist regime has forced a peace-loving community of Christians to become little more than aliens
READ MOREThe date was June 5, 1917, the first day of the draft. Sousa’s Band struck up &”Stars and Stripes Forever&” and the 6,000 in attendance at the American Medical Association Convention in New York City rose to their feet as former president Theodore Roosevelt walked across the stage. The United States had tried to avoid
READ MOREThis country belongs to all of us,&” affirmed President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor, adding with a smile, &”Heaven, of course, may be divided up.&” It was a lighthearted way of pointing out that there is full religious freedom under the constitution, and all religions are free to pursue their faith goals. East Timor
READ MOREThis article is part three in a four part series. Read Part 2 Read Part 4 The second part of this five-part series on Europe’s wars of religion told the story of how, from the 1520s until approximately 1650, the greatest nations in Christendom—France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, the Dutch Republic, and Britain—were all caught
READ MOREWithout freedom of religious expression, no discussion of life’s fundamental questions—&”What is the meaning of life?&” and &”What are my rights and obligations?&”— is complete, a United States congressman said at this year’s Religious Liberty Dinner. &”It is my hope that the ‘marketplace of ideas’ always allows space for faith and religion—not to dominate, not
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