Religious Freedom
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I don’t want a right to coercive prayer
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2 min read
In advancing a right to pray, the Supreme Court is now pretending your right to refuse doesn’t even matter.
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Free
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10 min read
Episode 22. April 28, 2022
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A Note About Grievance
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3 min read
There’s something to the way we talk about the tit-for-tat of politics that deeply confuses us. The danger for us is how it narrows our understanding.
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The Imperfect Path
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8 min read
The challenge of faith is that we don’t get to say who are “real Christians”.
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The case of a church of pot testing religious freedom on the sincerely-held standard is absurd. Which says more about the standard than the church. It was bound to happen. A pot church claiming a sincere religious belief. This is precisely the case we all imagined when Justice Samuel Alito penned the majority opinion in…
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Mocking Jesus
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9 min read
Jesus gets mocked. A lot. I’ve always known that people mock Jesus in each telling of the Passion. But I am struck by how the gospel we call Luke uses the mocking of Jesus as a recurring theme. [bctt tweet=”The mockery is an active participant, a character in the story.” username=”revdrewdowns” nofollow=”yes”] For Luke, the…