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Showing posts with label Free Exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Exercise. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

John Clarke’s Four Religious Principles

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After the arrest of Baptists John Clarke (1609-1676), Obadiah Holmes (1610-1682), and John Crandall (1618-1676), for holding an unauthori...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

The current state of separation of church and state

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As were our Baptist forefathers , so am I a proponent of the free exercise of religion – that is, in regard to state interference in it (we ...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Dresses are reasonable attire for Christian women

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Dresses and skirts are reasonable attire for Christian women. Some Americans do not think so. Even some churches, Christians, and Christian ...
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Friday, February 28, 2020

Founders Religion

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The opinions writers to “Letters to the Editor” of the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel newspaper provide an ongoing source of entertainment, if...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

More Tolerance

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The past weekend I read I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup . It’s a little scattered and a bit of a hard read, in my opinion, but i...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Roger Williams and Massachusetts Bay

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An outline of the issues raised by Williams and uncompromisingly pressed includes the following: (1) He regarded the Church of England as a...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Freedom of Speech or Freedom to Squelch

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Our time-honored value of freedom of speech is now regularly offered up on the altar of tolerance. Freedom of speech is often replaced by th...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

At it again

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Early this month the Student Government Association of Trinity University recommended in a resolution that Chick-fil-A be removed from the...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

Praying in Pennsylvania

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On Monday, March 25, a prayer by a Christian lawmaker in Pennsylvania stirred up a hornet’s nest. Before each session the House rules call...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Chick-Fil-A “set free”

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Chick-Fil-A. I could eat there seven times a day Where the people laugh and children play; Oh, I’m in love with Chick-Fil-A. Suddenly, I...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Patrick Henry's Speech

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The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Record, Volume 4, Number 5, May 1845 , pp. 131-132 PATRICK HENRY’S SPEECH. “May it please your wor...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

On the Hill and Around the World

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The House has voted to release FISA Memo; FBI & DOJ now under investigation . The report is believed to contain allegations that the FBI...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

“Now that’s funny”

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Original Hondo Welcome Sign Last summer the city of Hondo, Texas came under scrunity for their welcome signs . The signs on either...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Will conservatives and liberals flip?

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In 2015 Rowan County, Kentucky county clerk Kimberly Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples as a violation of her co...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Patrick of Ireland on Religious Liberty

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Okay. Patrick of Ireland did not write a treatise on religious liberty. Or specifically mention it in his writings. But it is St. Patrick’...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Practical thoughts on religious liberty and spiritual adultery

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Often when we speak and write on religious liberty versus spiritual adultery we may speak in abstract terms of doctrine , without understa...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Biblical principles of religious liberty

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In our current climate some American Christians, lacking a firm foundation in the faith, are questioning and even renouncing the ideal of r...

Footnotes on Religious Liberty

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In Biblical principles of religious liberty I began with the phrase “In our current climate.” I decided some people might immediately thin...