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What Boston Tells Us About Ourselves
This piece was written two days after the bombings in Boston, April 15, 2013. I caught the first mention of the Boston bombing on an iPhone news alert Monday and said a prayer. The news outlets had...
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The Christian Case for the American Dream
My great-great-grandfather was born on the Chisholm Trail in Spanish Fort, Texas. He was the first in our family to be born on American soil. His parents had fled northern England in the 19th century...
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Just What Was Wrong With DOMA?
The Defense of Marriage Act (1996) was struck down in June by five of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1996, 81 of the 536 relevant voters opposed it (535 members of Congress, and the...
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Why an Evangelical Follows Pope Francis
Headline after headline, story after story, we read about how Pope Francis is doing things differently. Eschewing the pomp and traditional trappings of the papacy, he refused the fur-trimmed half-cloak...
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What Hath Jerusalem to Do With Washington?
The KKK was for the separation of church and state and was supportive of public schools over parochial religious schools before it was cool to be so. In that way, they were good, even prescient,...
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