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Neither Reformation nor Enlightenment: The Seeds of Religious Freedom Within Islam

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Contrary to what one often hears in Western media, Islam needs neither a Reformation nor an Enlightenment. Islam must—and can—find resources from within its tradition to defend the full human right to religious freedom. The second in a two-part series.

Kermit Gosnell and the Ideology of Abortion on Demand

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If this butcher could carry on virtually in the open for so many years—if he could even be permitted one more “procedure” before police on the scene put an end to his sordid business—how many other clinics like his are there?

Patient Patriotism

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Patriotism isn’t merely something you show in a parade; it means having to deal with people with whom you disagree, but whose lives are bound to yours as yours is to theirs, in a long, difficult, patient, and sometimes painful search for the common good.

Toward an Urban Conservativism: Learning the Right Lessons from 2016

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Facing an increasingly divided nation, the conservative movement must offer policies addressing the reality of life in urban centers.

National Geographic‘s “Gender Revolution”: Bad Argument and Biased Ideology

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Accepting the claims of transgender ideology requires papering over one’s conscience and making a mockery of the “law written on the heart” that our bodies bear witness to in our complementary design.

The Battle Belongs to the Grassroots: This Is Our Moment

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This battle hinges on one thing: creating a vibrant—dominant—marriage culture based on the participation of millions of individuals.

Unconscionable: Threats to Religious Freedom and Rights of Conscience in the Abortion Debate

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Waging war against those who cannot in good conscience help perform or facilitate abortions does little to improve access for women seeking abortions, damages the integrity of those who object, and harms civil society.

Parallel Societies: How the American Military and Civilian Worlds Parted Ways

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The military is no longer a populist artifact but a plaything of political elites, and deep fissures have formed between it and the citizens that it used to represent.
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Mercy for Dylann Roof

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Showing mercy to Dylann Roof by refusing to impose the death penalty would respect the acts of both his victims, who showed him welcome, and their families, who showed him forgiveness. In this way, good could be drawn from evil, and the sinfulness of Dylann Roof’s actions could be overcome by love.

Love, Liberal Education, and the Secret of Human Identity

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True liberal education should teach us that we do not only give ourselves away: we become ourselves by the gift. We become who we are by forgetting to think about who we are.

Make Religious Freedom Great Again

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Donald Trump should commit to protecting the free exercise of religion for all Americans of all faiths.

What’s Religion Good For? Progressives Weigh In

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The answer many progressives give to the question, “What’s religion good for?” is troubling in at least two ways. Not only does it conflict with traditional understandings of religious freedom, it also does harm to the integrity of religion itself.

Unmasking Liberalism

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A new book reveals the crumbling foundations of the myth of liberalism and urges the challenging task of rehabilitating virtue.

Life Worthy of Life: Down Syndrome, Equality, and My Son Silas

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Those of us blessed by the love of someone with an extra twenty-first chromosome look forward to October. October invites me, along with all other parents of children with Down Syndrome, to proclaim loudly that our children live lives worthy of life.

If Tim Kaine Wins, the Catholic Church Loses

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Many high-profile Catholics like Tim Kaine publicly dissent from Catholic teaching and promote offenses against human dignity. When their actions go unrebuked by Church leaders, it harms both the Church as a whole and the faith of individual Catholics.

Pronouns, Ordinary People, and the War over Reality

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Do not dismiss the pronominal wars as nonsense or assume that its warriors are merely daft.

Love, Not Power: Diagnosing our Body Politic

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The deepest wellspring of human action is not power but love—the appetite to love and care for others and to be loved and cared for. Any healing of our broken political system must proceed on the basis of this basic truth about its parts.

On Wealth and the Bible, The First Christians Were Not Like David Bentley Hart

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Neither the New Testament nor the writings of early Christians support the idea that material wealth is intrinsically evil.

SOGI Laws: A Subversive Response to a Nonexistent Problem

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Now is not the time for proponents of religious freedom to partner with proponents of sexual orientation and gender identity legislation in hopes of catching a few crumbs of liberty that fall from the table.

Religious Freedom: The Basis for Human Rights . . . and the Survival of Christians in the Middle East

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It is time for the international community to respond to the plight of Christians in the middle east. Adapted from an address delivered by the Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church of Antioch to the 134th Convention of the Knights of Columbus.

How Liberals and Conservatives Can Learn from Moynihan’s Virtues

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Contemporary politicians would do well to emulate the virtues of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a liberal who understood the conservative lesson that intermediary institutions—particularly families—are essential for preserving liberal society.

The Promise and Peril of Conservative Principles

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The failure of movement conservatism to connect principles to policies that speak to current challenges has rendered it increasingly irrelevant to most Americans—and even to most Republicans.

Understanding Generation Snowflake: “I Find That Offensive!”

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Claire Fox’s book, “I Find That Offensive!” is a well-written, important, even brilliant contribution towards understanding the significance of current campus conflicts for society as a whole. Sadly, the picture she paints is bleaker than Fox herself realizes.

My Same-Sex Attraction and My Brother’s Disease: On Suffering and Serenity

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Suffering can lead to serenity, if we respond to it with trust in a loving God who will make all things right. We must remember: Love would not allow what Love could not restore.
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