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Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, will use a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson during his ceremonial swearing-in today.
According to CNN.com, Ellison spokesman Rick Jauert said the new congressman “wants this to be a special day, and using Thomas Jefferson’s Quran makes it even more special.”
“Jefferson’s Quran dates religious tolerance to [...]

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This website has compiled all of the State of the Union addresses in U.S. history and then analyzed them, visualizing the most-used words in a “tag cloud.” Very interesting and surprisingly telling.

Check it out: U.S. Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
There is a little slider in the upper-right that allows you to scroll backwards in time through [...]

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Perhaps this is just an example of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, but ever since I wrote an article about Christianity and government, I have been seeing the topic everywhere. For example, there was just recently an article in the Harding Bison entitled, “Whatever Happened to Christian Pacifism?” It’s a slightly different topic than I dealt with in [...]

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The relationship of Christians to the government has been a vital and controversial issue from the start of the Christian age. Even from the beginning of Christ’s ministry, many - in fact, most - of his disciples were under the false impression that he had come to overthrow the oppressive Roman government and establish a physical kingdom. There are a variety of false doctrines today that embody the same misunderstanding.

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