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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

…63) knocked prayer and state-sponsored religious activities such as Bible readings out of our public schools for good, our schools must have been idyllic places, largely free from the type and extent of violence we see today. Sure, there were the occasional schoolyard fights, but those are a far cry from the premeditated, high-fatality attacks that are seemingly becoming all too common these days. God was allowed in our schools, and the safety of…

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Roe & “Safe States”

…are successful, how would that work out? In 1924, the state of Virginia enacted a law entitled “An Act to Preserve Racial Integrity.” The law made it a crime for a white person to marry anyone except another white person. But it also made it a crime for an interracial couple to evade the law by going to a state where they could be married legally. The law was no joke. As late as 1958, an interracial couple who had been married in Washington DC re…

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The Best Books Media of 2008

…such lists aren’t so much a reflection of the best as of what the editors read and cared about that year. That can lead to a certain amount of cronyism—books by Times contributors are especially well represented on the Times’ list—which is a problem when readers take listmakers too seriously. But cronyism can also reflect schools of thought. Looked at for what it is, the web of connections that underlie a “best of” list reveals a portrait of a cer…

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McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

…e’s and Whole Foods attended a brown bag lunch whose speaker revived the dread of the Cold War, ominously asserting that communism continues to threaten America. It could have been ripped from the headlines of the sensationalistic conservative site World Net Daily, but the setting was far more staid. The speaker, David Noebel, part of The King’s College Distinguished Visitors series, was introduced by outgoing King’s Provost and World magazine edi…

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Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

ed grace to be “a cop-out… an excuse to sin.” But once he began studying, reading Paul in particular, Bakker got hooked on grace; became “a grace fiend, even.” Now, he finds himself advocating for the demanding work of grace—to extend grace to outcasts like LGBT people, but also to his critics. I had a chance to talk with Bakker about his new book, about his life story, and his hopes for the future of the evangelical church. You say you experience…

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We Shall Not Stop at Evangelism: Remembering Evangelical John R. W. Stott

…who passed away this week at the age of 90. In an age of megalomaniacal preachers, Stott stood decidedly apart, and in an era when American evangelicals were rushing into the political fray in support of right-wing politicians, Stott sought to remind them of the demands of the gospel. In his opening address at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, Stott—with characteristic humility—demolished the decade…

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Religious Liberty…For Bishops

…ressingly ignored. It’s almost always presented as a conflict between the leaders of a church vs. a secular government agency. All the representatives of the sacred seem to be on one side. But the struggle to bring birth control into the hands of American women has always been a struggle between differing religious views, not between religious and secular ones. When I was a seminary student in New York City in 1958, the public hospitals of the cit…

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Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights

…ey want all emails and records we have that mention every case, living or dead, accused or not, religious order or diocesan, in either of these dioceses, whether the communications are to and from victims, witnesses, whistleblowers, police, prosecutors, or journalists. And everything on repressed memory. To show you how wide-ranging this is, we could have a letter in our files from 1990 from a woman in Miami who was molested in Arkansas by a pries…

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Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

…it on time. The rebellious Sixties just confirmed what the Cold War had already shown us—that we were in a final showdown with evil that would only get worse until the second coming of Jesus which is now. Mormons have a smidgen of the survivalist in them. They expect total political and economic collapse, and are instructed to store what has come to be known as the “two-year supply”—a stock of water and imperishable food items to sustain them in t…

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Francis the Jesuit: a Philosopher-Pope?

…hy in this mode, Hadot explains, is a continuous process, to be renewed in each instant—a practice that not only extends toward lofty ideas, but also orients itself toward the ordinary, the common, the everyday.   But surely Hadot wasn’t talking about Catholicism? And yet the renowned historian, no fan of Catholic ritual life, characterized the Jesuit Exercises as “nothing but a Christian version of a Greco-Roman tradition.” Both share an emphasis…

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