“Catholic integralists want to bring back an Emperor under the authority of the Pope. Calvinist reconstructionists would like to see a church with temporal authority. Pentecostal Seven Mountain activists … So it’s a good time to think through whether Christianity can take on political power so as to impose its religious and moral teachings on non-believers.” - Veith
“The Italian Supreme Court’s harassment of an evangelical church serves as a stark reminder that the ongoing threats to religious liberty often come from those who identify as Christians.” - TGC
In the historical drama about the American Revolutionary War, The Patriot, a slave named Occam is signed up for the militia in place of his enslaver, who is too cowardly to fight himself. Occam goes to war because he has been forced to. He is thrust into duty. But the sub-plot thickens.
“Insofar as liberal proceduralism is the result of specifically Christian convictions about the inviolability of the conscience, and maybe even Reformed convictions about the necessity of the Holy Spirit in conversion; and certainly many biblical commands about gracious speech, love of neighbor, impartiality, and the Golden Rule; then liberal proceduralism should live on.” - Mark W
“The jury ruled that the Conrad Hotel managed by Park Hotels and Resorts Inc. … violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it failed to accommodate Jean-Pierre’s Sunday worship…. The hotel fired Jean-Pierre in March 2016 [for her refusal to work on Sundays] and plans to appeal the verdict.” - BPNews
