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  • Church Is Out0

    Redcoats—their mere presence a statement. Cochineal-colored Redcoats, with their snappy military trim, are walking village streets and gathering at the parish church, the brilliance of their uniforms both attractive and intimidating. To many residents the British military give the impression of routine maneuvers. Yet something sinister was drifting in, like the maritime fogs that venture

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  • Fifteenth Annual Religious Liberty Dinner—Voices for Freedom0

    More than 150 diplomats, religious liberty advocates, and guests gathered in support of religious liberty on June 1 at the fifteenth annual Religious Liberty dinner held in the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute in Washington, D.C. The annual event is held to celebrate and bring attention to a central human right: the freedom

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  • Universalizing Support for Religious Liberty0

    During the past 30 years, with a few exceptions, the Supreme Court has interpreted the religion clauses of the First Amendment to mean as little as possible. The Court seems content to enforce a minimalist, formalistic understanding of both the free exercise clause and the establishment clause. Constitutional prohibitions will invalidate overt discrimination against religion

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  • From a Distance0

    This editorial began nearly 40,000 feet above the yellow-hazed landscape of Saudi Arabia on an Emirates flight from Dubai to London. It was one of the last legs on what turned out to be an around-the-world pilgrimage with my family to spend some quality time in my Australian homeland. I have always marveled at the

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  • Evangelizing Freedom0

    Have Protestant ideas of human dignity and the importance of the individual impacted modern conceptions of human and civil rights? We have previously looked at the metaphysical ideas behind modern conceptions of human rights, and the rooting these ideas had in Protestant conceptions of human dignity and the priesthood of believers. It is one thing,

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  • The Trail of Crocodile Tears0

    Most people have heard the phrase “the Young Turks.” The appellation first came to prominence, in American politics in the early 1960s, when it referred to some Republicans in Congress who, upset with the status quo, sought to bring radical change to the party (among these “Young Turks” were Gerald Ford, Donald Rumsfeld, and Melvin

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