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Obiter 0
- September/October 2000
- January 1, 2000
Suddenly time is everything, and all-consuming. This once-in-a-lifetime passage–no, that's hopelessly out of scale–this societal blank check of entering a new millennium is consuming us all. And yet time is the ultimate intangible. One twentieth-century writer expressed it as the artifice of eternity. But time is the pool that we swim in, and as you
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Obiter 0
- September/October 2000
- November 1, 1999
I read the "Goodbyes" in the May/June issue and felt the need to reply. Though I don't always agree with Liberty's opinions and articles, I do value the forum fo the exchange of ideas and diverse opinions. The greatest danger to our society is not diverse opinions, but rather the silencing of opinions that do
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Home Schooling and the Law 0
- January/February 2000
- November 1, 1999
Somehow a reporter from a local paper found out about my mother's decision. And that was when I found out the terrible truth–I was living with a criminal. There it was in black and white in our local newspaper: "Vera Miller is in violation of the law, as she refuses to send her son to
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Why I Am Against Instituting School Prayer 0
- November/December 1999
- November 1, 1999
It is this concern for our culture that spurs calls for a reinstitution of prayer and Bible reading in public schools. Given my church background, some are surprised to hear my response to such requests. While I understand the anger and frustration many feel toward the federal courts and those who use the courts to
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The Third Way 0
- November/December 1999
- November 1, 1999
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, in common with all major Christian denominations, places a high premium on education. Worldwide the church operates a total of 5,464 elementary and secondary schools, with 1,024 of them in North America. In the United States, these schools are part of the 6 million students in 27,000 schools who attend non-public
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Separation of Church and State Is Not Just for Liberals . . .0
- November/December 1999
- November 1, 1999
Parker has been billed as a converted and reformed welfare mother who has become a fiery orator for conservative Christian political causes. Given her newness to the political fray, perhaps she could be forgiven for not knowing the history of church state separation and the value inherent in this arrangement for protecting the liberty of
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