Religious Freedom on Death Row?
- July/August 2019
- July 1, 2019
When I was reading the Bible recently, my mind flashed back to the Washington Post slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” I was reading these words of Jesus: “Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19). I found myself wondering: Does “democracy die in
READ MOREDuring the past 50 years the public face of religion has morphed into a private affair. Electronically interconnected opinions easily reduce the idea of religious faith to a positive and negative feedback system. This reduced form says people reward themselves when they can convince themselves that doing good makes a self-fabricated deity happy, while doing
READ MORESurrounded by many of the leading figures of the Christian Right, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13831, establishing the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative. In their eyes, he was acting as a modern-day Cyrus; a secular ruler come to rescue the downtrodden faithful. But is it that simple or beneficial for all parties?
READ MOREOn the evening of March 26, 2018, on CNN’s 360, a group of evangelical Christian women were asked to respond to the most recent allegations of marital infidelity against the president of the United States. Speaking as a Bible-believing Christian pastor, with many of the same moral convictions as those women, I found my heart
READ MOREJust a few weeks ago, it appeared to many knowledgeable observers that Americans’ religious rights had received a death sentence. And ironically, it came in a case involving a literal death sentence. Domineque Ray, a Muslim man in Alabama facing execution, requested an imam to be by his side in the execution chamber, but the
READ MOREThe intersection of American capitalism and religious freedom can be a tricky place. It has been long said that “the business of America is business.” Not surprisingly, the United States has always been loath to pass any law that could be viewed as interfering with business. In fact, it was not until the Great Depression,
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