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Who’s Your Favorite? We Should Not Choose by Voting Record Alone
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Lenin’s Revolution Vs. Luther’s Reformation
Yesterday (Nov. 7): the 90th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s Communist Revolution. Last week (Oct. 31): the 490th anniversary of the beginning of Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation. That numeral 4 indicates a key difference between the two: The 490 glorified God, | Read More »
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For Female Reporter, All the Red Sox and All the Saints
When the Boston Red Sox won the World Series on Sunday evening, I (born and raised in Massachusetts) read story after story about the victory. Here’s a braggadocio sampling from The Boston Globe’s male writers: – Dan Shaughnessy: "The Boston | Read More »
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Darwinism; Too Old-Fashioned To Be True
New York Times columnist John Tierney recently offered a materialist version of "intelligent design": All of us are actually characters in a computer simulation devised by some technologically advanced future civilization. Fanciful to the extreme, sure, but the growing number | Read More »
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Leaping Before We Looked: The Clinton Administration’s Bosnian Failure
With Hillary Clinton surging in the polls and Democrats knifing Bush’s foreign policy and praising Bill Clinton’s, it’s time for a reality check on a supposed triumph: Team Clinton oversimplified a complex situation in Bosnia and ended up aiding and | Read More »
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New York, America, the West: Prodigal Sons
Who’s for the gospel-infused best of Western culture? Korean Christians are. The Museum of Biblical Art is. At the beginning of October’s first week, Korean evangelist Ock Soo Park spoke at Madison Square Garden, where homegrown evangelist Creflo Dollar often | Read More »
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Two Cheers for the Bush Administration and Religious Freedom
Reasons to be sad about the Bush administration abound. But here’s a happy note: Team Bush has repaired its mistake on religious freedom that I and many others complained about last month. The problem then was the Federal Bureau of | Read More »
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Tolerate Polygamy, Purge Theology
No one tolerates everything. Some who tolerate the murder of unborn children abhor the killing of some animals. One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian. Should we tolerate the leader of a Utah polygamous sect convicted on Tuesday as an | Read More »
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From Little Rock Liberation to Educational Destruction
Next week brings the 50th anniversary of the desegregation at gunpoint of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. The U.S. Supreme Court had unanimously struck down in 1954 the concept of “separate but equal” education, and three years later | Read More »
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Emphasize Earning, Dump Dependency
Is international poverty best fought by distributing aid or by selling inexpensive products with names such as MoneyMaker? The "Design for the Other 90 Percent" exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum here is now in its last few days, | Read More »
