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- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
The late Christopher Hitchens got a lot of mileage out of laying blame for most of the world's atrocities at the door of religion. I know he expected to vanish into the cosmos at death, but recent images out of Iraq would surely conjure up more of his ire if nothing else. It does seem
READ MOREEvery promoter and defender of religious freedom should once in a while visit a few historical sites related to the struggle. It will inspire them. This is what two dozen curious “pilgrims” transported on a big black tour bus did for for two weeks throughout Italy, France, and Switzerland. We began the tour with a three-day
READ MOREEllen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, believed that young people could change the world. More than a century ago she noted how rapidly the gospel of Jesus could be taken to the world with an “army” of rightly trained youth. 1 Incidentally, Ellen White was only a teenager herself—just
READ MOREABOVE: Claude Morgan, Associate Director of Church State Council (left) and John V. Stevens, Sr., Director of Church State Council observe the signing of conscience-exemption legislation by California governor, Jerry Brown. The Church State Council has worked tirelessly for 50 years to maintain religious freedom, despite relentless efforts by others to minimize that freedom and
READ MOREOn the last day of June the Supreme Court handed down one of the most anticipated results of this year, affirming that business and corporate owners do possess rights of religious freedom under federal law. Running a business or filing as a corporation does not mean that one must set aside one’s basic religious convictions.
READ MORESecular orthodoxy maintains that courts are the founts of justice. This belief is so ingrained in the political and cultural psyche that our judicial system is often referred to colloquially as the “justice system.” Within courts’ hallowed halls civil disputes are equitably resolved; the criminally guilty are so adjudged and punished appropriately; the innocent vindicated;
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