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3 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Sarah Carter |Ryan N. Danker |Mark Tooley |Rick Plasterer
[Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of brief reflections authored by current and past interns about their experience at the Institute on Religion & Democracy. For more information about IRD’s internship program, click here.]After graduation from Wheaton College, I knew I wanted to work in the field of political theology.
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3 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Ryan N. Danker |Mark Tooley |Rick Plasterer
On March 28 IRD’s John Wesley Institute hosted a survey of the relationship between the church and monarchy in Britain; past, present and future. Our speaker was The Revd. Philip Corbett who serves as Vicar of St. Silas and Holy Trinity Kentish Town in the Diocese of London. Video of Fr. Philip’s talk is viewable in the video below from the John Wesley Institute YouTube channel.
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3 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Rick Plasterer |Sarah Stewart
A recent critique of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission evinces the decline in Protestant institutions, which is bad news for America. Nearly all U.S. Protestant denominations are declining, conservative and liberal, though the liberal ones are declining much faster, as American Christianity becomes increasingly nondenominational or post denominational.
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3 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley |Sarah Stewart |Wyatt Flicker
Mark Ryan, Adjunct Professor of Religion and Culture at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, and formerly Director of the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute spoke on the recently published (2024) book by Richard and Christopher Hays, The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality within the Biblical Story, at the annual L’Abri Conference in Rochester, Minnesota on February 15.
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4 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley |Sarah Stewart |Wyatt Flicker
A panel of Latin American human rights activists discussed the challenges to religious freedom in three Latin American countries at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. on February 5. Kristina Arriaga, formerly Executive Director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Vice-Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom moderated the panel. CubaMario Felix Lleonart, a Cuban human rights activist and formerly a Baptist pastor in Cuba spoke first.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer
Earlier this month I was able to chat with Jerome Copulsky, research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, on his new book American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order. The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer
The American movement for civil rights across 100 years, from the Civil War through the 1960s, is one of the greatest stories of humanity. Certainly, it is defining for America. And it helped universalize American values of human equality. Those values come from Christian anthropology.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley
[Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of brief reflections authored by current and past interns about their experience at the Institute on Religion & Democracy. For more information about IRD’s internship program, click here.]Among my goals through participation in the Falls Church Fellows program and internship at the IRD has been to learn more about the Reformed Protestant denominations.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm
While sifting through obscure Spanish colonial records, it was discovered a few years ago that the very first St. Patrick’s Day parade was not conducted in Boston, Chicago, nor New York City. Instead, the Irish feast day was celebrated in modern day St. Augustine, Florida, in 1601. “They processed through the streets of St. Augustine, and the cannon fired from the fort,” said Prof. J. Michael Francis of the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg, who discovered the document.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Sarah Carter
Jeremy Barker, Associate Vice President for International Strategy at the Religious Freedom Institute moderated a panel concerning religious freedom in Iraq at the International Religious Freedom Summit on February 4. He said that legislation to protect religious freedom in Iraq is being formulated to be presented in the Iraqi Council of Representatives. It aims to protect all religious, and especially minority communities for “long-term survival” in Iraq.
