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Blank Check Danger 0
- November/December 2022
- November 1, 2022
Regardless of what you thought of his politics, there was something seductive about Paul Harvey’s style of storytelling. As an American radio icon for more than a half century, Harvey’s specialty was taking stories and finding an unanticipated twist that transformed the mundane into the intriguing. He demonstrated this skill most clearly in his long-running
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What If Religion Isn’t Special Enough?0
- September/October 2022
- September 1, 2022
Defenders of religious freedom in the United States are walking toward a cliff’s edge that most of us don’t want to acknowledge is there. In fact, recent events at the Supreme Court make the danger up ahead even harder for us to see. Consider Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the football coach prayer case. The
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A Matter of Interpretation 0
- September/October 2022
- September 1, 2022
When it comes to free exercise and establishment clause doctrine, has the Court delivered a triumph or a tragedy? Illustrations by Jon Krause Examining recent cases and doctrinal developments interpreting the free exercise clause and the establishment clause of the First Amendment reminds me of two lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Macbeth himself states in the
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Teaching the (Corporate) World to ‘Sing in Harmony’0
- September/October 2022
- September 1, 2022
Interview with Brian Grim Some of America’s top companies have begun to welcome faith into the workplace as part of their overall diversity initiatives. Intel, Alphabet, Tyson Foods, American Airlines, and Texas Instruments are just a few of the international corporations that have created programs in recent years encouraging employees to “bring your whole self,
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New-Look Blue Laws?0
- September/October 2022
- September 1, 2022
For decades religious minorities in America battled state-level Sunday rest laws. Today, are there moves afoot to dust off this old concept of synchronized rest? If there was any benefit at all to the COVID-19 shutdowns, it was that the world took a much-needed break. Offices, stores, sports, restaurants, and even churches deemed “unnecessary” closed
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The Politics of Jesus 0
- September/October 2022
- September 1, 2022
Beyond Transformation and Isolation How should Christians respond to the spate of terrible events that have shaken American society to its core over the past two years: the Capitol insurrection, multiple police killings of African Americans, sky-high inflation, escalating gun violence, the increasing boldness of White supremacists, political upheaval, a global pandemic, and deeply rooted
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