02843 – Washing Feet? Or Waging War?

I've been watching people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian people is a violation of their “sincerely-held religious beliefs.” And I can't help but laugh at the sad irony of it. Two-thousand...

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02718 – Greatest Dangers to Liberty

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by people of...

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02671 – Unexamined Faith

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

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02613 – Liberty or Death?

There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death; If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive…----------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: There was one of two things I had a right to:...

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02555 – How Do We Love Our Neighbor?

We American Christians will always be tempted to allow our own freedom, liberty, rights, and comfort to dictate how we exercise loving our neighbor. Jesus will keep asking us to allow the love of neighbor to dictate how we exercise our own freedom, liberty, rights,...

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00242 – Religious Liberty

Religious liberty is the nursing mother of all liberty. Without it all other forms of liberty must soon wither and die. The Baptists grasped this conception of liberty in its full-orbed glory, from the very beginning. Their contention has been, is now, and must ever...

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