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...Since the days of John Bunyan and Roger Williams, Baptists have traditionally believed in total separation of church and state. But attempts to practice that belief have had hard treatment in the Soviet Union. Baptists who follow Soviet rules can hold worship services, but the government forbids them to preach the word of God in public or to bring up their children with religious instruction...
...much more severe. No one really knows to what extent inflation will be aggravated by potentially limitless price rises hi a commodity so basic to the economy as petroleum, yet the nation has no real alternative to freeing up the price of crude. It seems pointless for Washington to preach to the world about the need to conserve while at the same time maintaining artificially low prices that encourage waste...
...Pope Francesco visits Mexico and enunciates the church's position on political involvement: "The church must be independent . . . We can not have a material stake in the status quo or in revolution or in any of the other possible political events in between. We must be free to preach justice and to do justice." Those were the precise ideas, if not the very words, of Pope John Paul II on his visit to Mexico last January, well after The Vicar of Christ had gone to press...
Thus it was, according to Islamic tradition, that an unremarkable Arab trader from Mecca was inspired to preach God's word in the year A.D. 610. Compared with Jesus or the Buddha, information about the life of the man who became known as the Messenger of Allah is relatively abundant, although the facts have been embellished with pious folklore. Some have claimed that at Muhammad's birth the palace of the Persian emperor trembled, or that a mysterious light ignited at his mother's breast, shining all the way to Syria, 800 miles away. It was said...
Reluctantly, the examining commission, led by Bishop Eduard Lohse, forbade Schulz to preach or administer the sacraments. He is expected to receive a $12,000-a-year stipend if he shuns anti-church activities. The commission insisted that it still favors "a wide spectrum" of individual interpretation. Indeed, Schulz was only the third clergyman in this century to be acted against by German Protestants for doctrinal reasons. Schulz's notions are not new, or even rare. But churchmen who reach such views customarily leave the church or at least stop ministering to a congregation. Schulz's tragedy, noted...