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- May/June 2020
- May 1, 2020
Besides her brains, charisma, and speaking ability, one of the things that gave Anne Hutchinson such a faithful following in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston was her medical knowledge. At a time when the following remedy—“Take the milk of a nurse that gives suck to a male child and also take a he-cat and cut off one
READ MOREAs Thomas Jefferson stood at the door of the White House, there was one guest that stood out among those he welcomed that New Year’s Day.Approaching with fanfare and driving a team of six horses, Elder John Leland arrived with a 1,235-pound wheel of cheese. The cheese, a congratulatory gift for the recently elected Jefferson,
READ MOREThere is no religious freedom in the wider Middle East region. There is instead a tyranny of the majority over the minority in all walks of life, be it the religious, political, social, cultural, or economic sphere. It is claimed, however, that religion and belief in God are synonymous with morality and living the good
READ MOREThe world is burning, literally and symbolically. And no one knows how to put out the “fires.” As we watch TV images of wildfires from California to Australia, and mass riots from Asia to Latin America, it’s very hard to suppress a feeling of impotence; that we are faced with “fires” raging beyond human control.
READ MOREBack in early March I was still traveling far afield promoting religious liberty. One of my last trips before “social distancing” had me largely confined to home and walks in my neighborhood was to San Francisco, California. Already there was a sense of rising social panic. The airport was a little quieter than usual; many
READ MORERecently I overheard a group of teenagers discussing a celebrity who had committed suicide not long before. They eulogized him in glowing terms briefly, but then began to talk about the way he died. One of the kids said, “Well, he was in a lot of pain, so I can kind of understand why he
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