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  • Earth and Sky0

    Colorful as our cover is for this issue, it puts me to mind of an old black and white movie. In 1957, Swedish playwright Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed The Seventh Seal. The title was taken from Revelation 8, verse 1: &”And when [the Lamb] had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven 

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  • The Day0

    Roman Emperor Constantine was the first European leader to impose Sunday rest on much of the continent. More than 1,500 years later a contemporary movement to do so again started building momentum decades ago as the region pursued closer &”integration.&” In recent years, however, the expanding coalition to declare Sunday an official &”day of rest&”

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  • The Way0

    Novus ordo seclorum, a phrase that appears on the American $1 bill, means &”a new order for the ages,&” and reflects the thinking and intent of the Founders in America at the time of the Continental Congress. For them, the New World discovered by Columbus offered many opportunities for a political experiment that was completely

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  • The Tenth Annual Religious Liberty Dinner0

    Minister John Baird underscored the integral role the defense of religious liberty plays in shaping the fabric of a democratic society during his keynote address at the May 24, 2012, Religious Liberty Dinner in Washington, D.C.  Baird is the minister of foreign affairs for the federal government of Canada. &”There is special purpose in defending

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  • A Nation Committed to Religious Freedom0

    Thank you for your speech tonight. We’re very impressed by this new Office of International Religious Freedom. Does Canada intend to reach out in a new and unprecedented way for religious freedom? Baird: Certainly one of my main responsibilities is promoting Canadian values; and the Office of International Religious Freedom will assist all of our

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  • Faith and Home0

    Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that . . . of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support&” (Thomas Jefferson, 1807). All across the

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