Maksym Vasin, executive director of the Kyiv-based Institute for Religious Freedom, speaks at the 2023 IRF Summit in Washington DC. At a summit side event focused on Ukraine, panelists including Vasin, Siniy, Igor Bandura, first vice president of the Baptist Union, and Andriy D...
trying to gain a little more time with his philosophical filibuster. But knowing the poet’s faith, we may assume that Time is mistaken. What the poet craves is not more time, buteternity: freedom from temporality itself, in “the place where God doth dwell” beyond the binaries of here ...
The king decided the Golan Heights belonged to Israel and they were going to take it back. He summoned Jehoshaphat, king of Judah for a Summit Meeting to plan for a United Israeli War Cabinet to go to War with Syria over the Golan. Jehoshaphat told the king of Israel he’s all in, b...
To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups, including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs, settled into Moscow for a “Demographic Summit,” the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date. As the hea...
I had been focused on my personal freedom, on my right to define who I am, on my responsibility to my sense of self. The dignity of the census taker was not a part of my mental equation… She thanked me. But the price of my self-definition had been the wall I felt I’d built ...
swallowed like the Egyptians of old. Yes, the Red Sea comes to mind here, and the river Jordan—those great baptismal archetypes of crossing over from bondage to freedom, old to new, death to life. As I took my first steps on the wet sand, I sang one of my favorite shape note hymns...
Advertising for a roommate, it seems, means that, as part of business and commerce, one no longer has freedom of association in chosing the roommate. Several cases in this regard have concerned the Boy Scouts of America, which requires scouts to profess a belief in God and will not ...
The New Jersey governor has had a testy relationship with some elements of the religious right, and he declined an invitation last year to address the Faith and Freedom Coalition. During his speech Friday before the same group, though, he was nothing but complimentary. ...
The night, O my Lord, is a time of freedom. You have seen the morning and the night, and the night was better. In the night, all things began, and in the night the end of all things has come before me. — Thomas Merton, “Fire Watch, July 4, 1952” ...
Asbury University Revival (February 2023). True religion, in great part, consists in holy affections. — Jonathan Edwards “After Thursday, I was like, okay, I’m going to go sleep. But [God] was like, ‘No, I have more for you.’” ...