By What Authority?0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2013

Since the emergence of the Religious Right on the American political scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, cooperation between Protestants and Catholics for political purposes has been both open and active. Such religio-political alliances have existed before, of course, in the context of liberal causes (e.g., civil rights, the Vietnam War). The corporate

In the Shadow of the Capitol0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

Liberty magazine, which is just completing 100 years of continuous publication under its own name, had several precursor Seventh-day Adventist religious liberty magazines, starting with the American Sentinel magazine (1886-1900). With the exception of a few months in 1900 and 1901, when it was published by the International Religious Liberty Association in Chicago as The

Coming up for Air0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

In so many ways we seem at the flood stage of late. The December 2004 Tsunami gave reality to a global fear of an insatiable ocean intent on creating another Atlantis. Hurricane Katrina became the most recognizable of an alphabet-busting succession of storms battering the Americas. Vast stretches of prime ocean property now lie either

By What Authority?0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

There is a great principle at the heart of the movement to strike the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance—and from our national customs, our currency, and our public ceremonies. It has very little to do with atheism. It has a great deal to do with authoritarianism. The philosophy behind America's founding is

Indespensable Supports0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

Evolution and Intelligent Design0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

According to InterVarsity Press, "The intelligent design theory has become the center of a growing controversy among state boards of education around the country as school board members and parents ask their local school boards to allow intelligent design to be taught in their science classrooms." Intelligent design is a truth-claim about the origin of