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Solution or Sellout?0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
Can America navigate the cultural conflict around marriage, religious freedom, and LGBTQ nondiscrimination? With the Respect for Marriage Act, Congress moves beyond a winner-take-all approach. The current political toxicity in Washington, D.C., means that every question of public policy attracts stridently different interpretations from both left and right. So the level of inflammatory, contradictory messaging
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Hidden and Alone 0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban has ushered in a dangerous new era for Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and minority Islamic sects. The dramatic fall of Afghanistan’s capital to rapidly moving Taliban forces came on August 15, 2021. Within a matter of weeks the Taliban army had conquered the country, reestablishing their presence as the
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The Bigger Win 0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
The Mustangs, Oakwood Adventist Academy’s varsity boys’ basketball team, was having an excellent season. In fact, the best season in the team’s history. By February 2022, for the first time ever, they’d fought their way to the semifinals of the state championship. They were prepared, focused, and eager to travel to Jacksonville, Alabama, for their
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Religious Free Speech at a Crossroads 0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
In 303 Creative v. Elenis the Supreme Court again enters the legal and cultural minefield of LGBTQ nondiscrimination and claims of faith. Last November the Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act, codifying same-sex marriage into federal law and requiring states to recognize such unions if they are legal where they were entered. The bill also
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The Preacher and the President 0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
At America’s founding, an eccentric pastor, a radical vision for religious liberty, and an extraordinary legacy On New Year’s Day, 1802, Thomas Jefferson received one of the most legendary presidential gifts in American history: a gigantic wheel of cheese, 13 feet in circumference and weighing 1,235 pounds. A paper sign draped over its red crust
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Lessons from Bonhoeffer 0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
Learning to put God and others—rather than self—at the heart of religious freedom In January 2017, four days after the inauguration of the then-president of the United States, the first class meeting of my spring-term course at Harvard Divinity School focused on the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian of the 1930s
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