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Augustine: Pursuing Justice

As the Roman Empire became Christianized, church leaders were assigned increasing civic responsibilities. By Augustine's time, Roman law empowered ...


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Political Prayer

Every once in a while, a minister's prayer opening a state legislature somewhere makes the news. Usually it's because it's too "exclusive," ...


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Morality and the Law

In the ultimate analysis of what moral forces govern a society, it must generally be concluded that law alone is a feeble instrument. Laws will not be ...


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No Fit Masters Among Us

Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do ...


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Earthly Kingdoms Always Perish

Several years ago the noted British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was a guest at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. ... When he had finished his testimony, ...


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Transit Troubles

Several years ago, the London Transit Authority had a problem. Buses were going right past passengers who were waiting at designated places to be picked ...


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The Final Victory

Some will tell you that triumph will come by the development of human beings--the gradual evolution of their potentialities. We should just give it time, ...


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Speaking with a Forked Tongue

We as a nation too often lack integrity, which might be described, in a loose and colloquial way, as the courage of one's convictions.

We, the people ...


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He Preached for Us

Martin Luther King, Jr., did not come preaching something new. He came shouting something we already knew: "You have said in your own Declaration ...


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Morality and Politics

Sufyan Thauri, a classical Muslim writer, once wrote, "The best of the rulers is he who keeps company with men of [religious] learning, and the worst ...


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