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- February 6, 2015
Hundreds Dead After Street Clashes in Cairo.” Headlines such as that are attention-grabbers. Not only is it shocking to hear of so many lives lost amid a maelstrom of violence, but this, after all, was supposed to be the Arab Spring! Rewind a moment and think about what has happened in Egypt in just one
READ MOREAs an outside observer of U.S. and Canadian media I am often bemused at how often some of my Christian friends across “the pond” allow themselves to be diverted into often vacuous debates over what America’s Founders “intended” when they wrote the separation of church and state into the American Constitution. Not that I suggest
READ MOREThe Eleventh Annual Religious Liberty Dinner took place on April 18, 2013, at the Canadian Embassy—again. It’s always good to be invited back to meet with friends, especially when there is something to share. Last year Canadian foreign minister John Baird spoke to the Adventist-sponsored group that as usual included a good mixture of the
READ MOREIt wasn’t exactly headline news, even in 1882, though for the then very small (17,169 members) and relatively new (founded in 1863) religious group, called the Seventh-day Adventists, it was a harbinger of things to come. In Oakland, California, Willie C. White, a son of two founders of the church, and superintendent of the Pacific
READ MORERecent events have called into question just how much progress humankind has made. The April 15, 2013, bombing in Boston, Massachusetts, disrupted more than just a marathon; it caused several fatalities, including the death of a child, and maimed and injured more than 100 others. Along with the immediate task of coping with yet another
READ MOREAdvocates of religious freedom, be they genuine or merely self-designated, are astir in America just now. And many are deeply worried. They perceive a secular tide in the land, threatening to stifle the voice and visible practice of faith, at least the conservative kind. When he was president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,
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