Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe Christian owners of a bakery in Oregon that refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding were ordered to keep quiet about their conscientious objections to the unions – a gag order they have every intention of defying.
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“Patient endurance attains to all things.
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“God is a farmer, and if He abandons man,
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“My chosen shall not
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A recent Friday morning found me at the funeral Mass for a friend’s mother, and I had to take the two youngest with me. We lasted only a few minutes in the main church. My three year old, his toddler voice echoing during the quiet and solemn service, sent us into the vestible. I could hear the readings from the speakers back there, and listened while the kids sprawled at my feet. It was Matthew’s Gospel of the final judgement, where Christ tells of separating the sheep from the goats. I felt my stomach knotting up as I listened.
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“An indispensable requirement in the
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“Fly a thousand miles from saying, ‘I was
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a recent court filing that transgender students must be allowed to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity rather than according to their biological gender.
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A new study of Christian reaction to the June 26 Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in the U.S. has found that the country is deeply divided on the issue but that most Americans believed it was inevitable.
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“We must wait for God long, meekly, in the
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