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Church Central to Town

In the opening chapters of his autobiographical classic The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton offers a unique look at the church's place in society. ...


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Our Hope Is Not in Politics

Many Christians, like most of the populace, believe the political structures can cure all our ills. The fact is, however, that government, by its very ...


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"Amazing Grace": God Made Man Equal

The film Amazing Grace chronicles the efforts of William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffedd) to end the British Transatlantic slave trade in the 19th century. ...


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God on Trial

It is not uncommon for people to shake their fists at God in the midst of tragedy and suffering. The Bible includes the stories of righteous men who questioned ...


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Religious Neutrality Only Produces Disdain

Neutrality to religion guarantees neutrality to those very values that issue from religion. As justice William O. Douglas said, if "in every and ...


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Religious Faith Is No Secret Vice

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said:

Church and state would not be such a difficult subject if religion were, as the Court apparently thinks it to ...


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National Idolatry

The chief impediment to religious liberty in our generation is the renewed effort to make of the United States a theocracy rather than the constitutional ...


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The Right Relationship of Church and State

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.


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The German Church: Lessons Under Hitler

I have learned that the important thing for the church is not to have leaders and parish buildings, but to have Christians in the individual parishes ...


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Church and State

Religious liberty consists of the civil magistrate's comprehending and acknowledging that it has no rightful authority over a man's soul. A proper ...


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