by Kevin Bauder | Aug 30, 2017 | Argumentation and Debate, Civility, Tolerance
What should we make of the Southern Poverty Law Center, now that it has started labeling traditionalist and Christian groups as “hate groups?” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars offers an opinion. The culture wars impinge ever closer on...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 3, 2017 | Argumentation and Debate, Politics, Tolerance
A reflection by Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative, including a critique of the “Coexist” philosophy. A few days ago, as I drove our family to church, I was again affronted by the “coexist” bumper sticker and felt myself muttering the word...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 20, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, History, Persecution, Religious Freedom, Tolerance, What We're Reading
Toleration–allowing freedom of expression–has no logical limits. In religion it includes ritual, which is action as well as words. But does it include burning the country’s flag? Law in the United States says yes. What of behavior onstage that many...
by Kevin Bauder | Jun 30, 2017 | Islam, Liberalism, Religious Freedom, Social Issues, Tolerance
Writing for the Witherspoon Institute, Ismail Royer responds to Bernie Sanders’s attempt to impose a religious test for public office: such people “are not protecting religious pluralism but are rather demanding that all public servants be...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 18, 2017 | Baptists, Catholicism, Christianity, Church History, Reformation, Religious Freedom, Tolerance
During the English Reformation Catholics burned Anglicans and Anglicans burned Catholics. Now the Archbishop of Canterbury has decided it’s time to express remorse. Apparently, plenty of people in the UK find this gesture pretty ridiculous. Perhaps it’s...
by Jeff Straub | Jan 14, 2017 | Persecution, Religious Freedom, Tolerance
http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2017/january/top-50-countries-christian-persecution-world-watch-list.html
