The idea hit me as I was driving, through the border from Germany to France: Germany, a separate state? France, a separate state? So, what is so painful about a Palestinian state contiguous with the state...
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“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch,” said Benjamin Franklin. Democracies had failed in the past, blown to pieces by demagogues inflaming raging passions, the majority...
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Church for Sale, Coronavirus, Kirk Douglas, LGBT Services, Lent, Latter-day Saints and Gender, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Chinese Churches Christ Church Cathedral Begins LGBT+ Services Christ Church Cathedral...
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Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has relegated more than 200 Jehovah’s Witnesses to its List of ‘Persons Involved in Extremism or Terrorism,’ according to Jehovah’s...
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Religion and Politics, Klobuchar, Coronavirus and the Eucharist, Polygamy, Faith-Based Treatment of Vets, No to Married Priests, State of the Church Survey 2020 State of the Church Survey Barna Group,...
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I grew up in the 1970s, when the U.S. first had overtly negative dealings with Iran. In 1953, we had helped to topple the democratically elected Mosaddegh administration, installing a puppet government...
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The news seems ominous. Studies show Christianity on the ropes in Europe and on the decline in the United States. Church buildings going on the real estate markets, while Americans drift away from a spiritual...
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28 Feb 2020
Rabbi Michael Shevack
You Don’t Have to be a Supreme Court Justice to See a Thumb on the Scales By Charles Franklin
