May/June 2012

The Blues 0

If you thought that Sunday &”blue&” laws were relics of the past, something that belongs in Norman Rockwell paintings of &”the good old days,&” then think again. A recently enacted North Dakota Sunday-closing law reads somewhat like the Jim Crow laws did in the old South in its somewhat archaic absolutism. The statute—&”12.1-30 SUNDAY CLOSING

The Promised Persecution 0

Persecution of Christians is alive and well in Communist China; it became especially vicious, brutal, sadistic, and deadly during the Cultural Revolution. Check-Hung Yee, former Salvation Army official in China, now living in San Francisco, California, says that &”before the Cultural Revolution, there were approximately 1 million Christians. The new atheistic government eventually closed all

Danger and Opportunity 0

I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Behind the harsh appearances of the world there is a benign power. To say God is personal is not to make him an object among other objects or attribute to

Showing The Flag 0
- May/June 2012
- May 1, 2012
I have become convinced that unless a certain historic awareness becomes a present preoccupation, then a once-great republic is destined for the worst of old ages—a certain dementia that combines lack of energy with violent irrationality. I thought about this dynamic in the long months taken up with the primaries that precede the presidential election.
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Accommodating Religious Objections 0
- May/June 2012
- May 1, 2012
Anyone who has kept up on current events knows about the proposed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations that were announced in January. Designed to implement parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they required employers to include contraception services in the health insurance plans they offered their employees. The primary objection to
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Mandate Tests Faith 0
- May/June 2012
- May 1, 2012
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010,1 all employer health-care plans must provide—at no cost to the employee—certain preventive services for women.2 The inclusion of contraceptives—including abortion-causing contraceptives—in this mandated coverage has caused a public uproar, with religious groups opposed to contraception and/or abortion decrying the violation of their religious freedom. The ACA is
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