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April 27th, 2016
As a Christian and an across-the-board conservative author, I write about a variety of topics: economic freedom, national security, international relations and social issues. My Christian faith informs all areas of my life, and it enables me to share wisdom that is much greater than my own. As long-time readers of my columns and books know, my biggest passion is...
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April 22nd, 2016
Bi-vocational pastors be warned – what you say from the pulpit on Sunday could get you fired from your public sector job on Monday. Dr. Eric Walsh, a renowned public health expert who also serves as a lay minister, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Public Health alleging he was terminated for delivering sermons on issues...
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April 7th, 2016
WASHINGTON — Evangelical leader Michael Cromartie asserted Tuesday that it is “inexcusable” that prominent evangelical leaders like megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. have thrown the “new branding” of the Christian Right “out the window” by supporting Donald Trump for president. Cromartie, the vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of...
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April 7th, 2016
WASHINGTON — Evangelical leader Michael Cromartie asserted Tuesday that it is “inexcusable” that prominent evangelical leaders like megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. have thrown the “new branding” of the Christian Right “out the window” by supporting Donald Trump for president. Cromartie, the vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of...
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March 11th, 2016
Of all the bizarre aspects of the 2016 presidential campaign, none has been more puzzling to many observers than the embrace of Donald Trump by evangelical Christians. After losing the evangelical vote (and first-in-the-nation caucuses) to Ted Cruz in Iowa, Mr. Trump won a plurality of evangelical votes in a string of primaries. He did so again in Michigan and...
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January 19th, 2016
Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., has always been a hero to me. Growing up in the inner city of Boston, I memorized his “I Have a Dream” speech. I remember trying to imitate his cadence and delivery as I practiced it. In 1963 he wrote Letter from a Birmingham Jail. He addressed it to “My Fellow Clergymen” and as a clergyman,...
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November 17th, 2015
Some of you, especially those on the left side of the political aisle, are scratching your heads over Ben Carson’s recent surge in the polls. I get why you’re surprised, but you shouldn’t be. This has definitely been the year of the outsiders in the Republican race, but this “outside” group may be more multifaceted than you think. Many people...
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November 6th, 2015
Making Our Children Weak—How Violating the Religious Rights of Teachers like Joe Kennedy Harms Society From high school students to presidential candidates, people are acknowledging the constitutional rights of Americans like Coach Joe Kennedy—the high school football coach suspended from his job last week for praying on the football field after the conclusion of the game—to freely exercise their religion....
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