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Life in All Its Fullness 0
- July/August 1999
- July 1, 1999
These words of Jesus embody the biblical picture of God's creative and redemptive love–an all-embracing love which includes all people. These words also sum up the biblical theme of concern for basic human rights. While the expression "human rights" may not be found in the Bible, its essential components–freedom, justice, and peace–are. Each is central
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Beyond Death with Dignity 0
- July/August 1999
- July 1, 1999
Dr. Andrew Gotts[0] is a neurologist who practices in Washington State. Among his patients are some who have ALS (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease). During his career he has often had to deal with the complex issues that patients and their families face when ALS progresses to the terminal phase in which the patient's body slowly
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Blood Oath 0
- July/August 1999
- July 1, 1999
A few minutes earlier a 32-year-old auto mechanic named Keith Cook left a birthday party "drunk and angry." He tore off in his 1972 pickup, which soon approached the same road where the Russell accident had occurred. Cook's pickup became airborne as it barreled over a hill and, though he hit the brakes, smashed into
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Alive and Kicking 0
- July/August 1999
- July 1, 1999
People who believe there's no prayer in public schools need to talk with 16-year old Jessie Doerrer. For the Bowie, Maryland, high school junior, religion isn't something to be confined to one day a week. Doerrer believes in integrating her Christian beliefs into everyday life–and that includes her time at public school. On school days
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!0
- July/August 1999
- July 1, 1999
The debate over these ten simple words–"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"–has been a relatively recent development. For the first century and a half after the Establishment Clause was written, there were few arguments over it. By the time the furious debates began, all those who either framed the clause or
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Christianity (Protestant, Evangelical) 101 0
- May/June 1999
- May 1, 1999
For more than two years the Gulf Coast community of Lee County, Florida, has been in a fracas over the school board's proposal to offer high school students a "Bible history" course based on a curriculum developed by a North Carolina group linked with the Religious Right. What began as (supposedly) a neutral effort to
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