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Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2026

'Saving faith' comprises believing, praying, following

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My wife and I were privileged this morning to worship with our friends at North Scituate (R.I.) Baptist Church ( YouTube ), which is led by...
Monday, December 15, 2025

'How Beautiful We Were' when 'They Poisoned the World': What I've been reading, 2025 edition

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It's been since the pandemic that I wrote an installment of "What I've Been Reading." With some time to spare in transit r...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Iglesia celebra ordenación en comunidad quechua

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Pastor Cruz a la izquierda, con Pastor Zhulleima y su esposa y hijos. Capture from video at BBC RI media En mi iglesia de Rhode Island el d...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Christian law students hear advice on grounding oneself in faith amid stresses of law practice

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🍀 St. Patrick's Day Zoom . RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The newly constituted student Christian Legal Society at UMass Law School he...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Amos, King: love one another; defend the oppressed; plead the cause of the innocent, the powerless

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David Erickson CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons On this Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, I was blessed with the opportunity to stand in the ...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Ethics problems in law, education inform message on Christian ethics in biblical story of widow's offering

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Last Sunday, it was my privilege to deliver a message on "Christian ethics," arising from Mark 12:41-44 , at my local church in Ba...
Friday, November 4, 2022

As Jacoby talk commemorates Kristallnacht, Ukraine recurs in historical record of flights from oppression

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An upcoming talk on Kristallnacht, a recent experience in the Paraguayan Chaco, and the ongoing war in Ukraine have me thinking lately about...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

Museveni still holds reins in Uganda after 35 years, rebuffs allegations of human rights abuses

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At age 77, Yoweri Museveni maintains his grip on power in Uganda and yesterday rebuffed criticism by Human Rights Watch. In 2016, I presente...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Christian flag, Nazi art color SCOTUS arguments this week, raising First Amendment, choice-of-law issues

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in both the Boston flag First Amendment scrap ( on this blog ) and the latest transn...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

Missionaries kidnapped in Haiti reach freedom, but murky U.S. policy generally fails ransomed abductees

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Haitian child in 2012 ( photo by Feed My Starving Children CC BY 2.0 ). News came last week that the last 12 of 17 Christian missionaries ...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Boston flag scrap heads to Washington

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Three flagpoles at Boston City Hall ( photo by Daderot CC0 1.0 ) A Boston First Amendment flag-flying case is Supreme Court bound. The cas...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Lockdown tests religious freedom, responsibility

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For two reasons, it pains me to see churches on the news violating stay-at-home rules.  First, like almost everyone, I'm horrified by t...