January/February 1998

Overdone 0

Though some people's meals might be bad, imagine facing criminal charges because of your cooking. That's exactly what happened to George Barghout. Mr. Barghout, formerly the owner and operator of a yogurt shop located in Baltimore, sold both kosher and nonkosher foods. On November 15, 1990, he was fined $400 plus $100 in court cost's

Discriminatory Practices 0

Trinity Western University (TWU), an institution of higher learning in Langley, British Columbia, was founded by the Evangelical Free Church of Canada (EFCA) in 1962 and incorporated as a nonprofit society. In 1969 the British Columbia legislature enacted the Trinity Junior College Act constituting TWU as a body corporate with the object of providing university

Mr. Twain's Imaginary Fractures 0

It was a night of anguish, of course at least I supposed it was, for it had all the symptoms of it but it passed at last, and the Christian Scientist came, and I was glad. She was middle-aged, and large and bony, and erect, and had an austere face and a resolute jaw and

Hollow Cries 0
- January/February 1998
- January 1, 1998
"We Christians face persecution right here in America!" said the balding gentleman sitting to my right at a recent banquet. "It's true," the young mother across the table said. "I read about a high school in Michigan that was forced to take down a picture of Jesus that had been there for 30 years. It
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Germany and the "Sects"0
- January/February 1998
- January 1, 1998
The Jehovah's Witnesses The Jehovah's Witnesses–who had already faced persecution by a previous German administration (1933-1945)–report problems in two areas. The first is the dissemination by German states of "anticult" material that defames the church. The church has brought defamation suits against the purveyors of this information, and for now the practices have stopped. A
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Cults and Psycho Groups 0
- January/February 1998
- January 1, 1998
Sometimes it has to happen to a celebrity before the world pays attention. In 1993 acclaimed American Jazz pianist Chick Corea was disinvited from a concert in Stuttgart, Germany. The government of the German state of BadenWurttemberg canceled the concert because Mr. Corea is a Scientologist. For many, this was the first indication that all
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