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A Third Article on Impeachment

| March 9, 2020 | Blog Contributor

A Third Article on Impeachment
The recently concluded impeachment proceedings involving President Donald J. Trump have prompted many opinions and observations, some less valid or less accurate than others. Americans, and indeed all of humanity, display a continual willingness to believe that their...
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Bryan Knowles
Bryan Knowles was selected as a 2020 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a senior at Bryan College where he is a double major in history and politics & government.

Rehabilitation Through the Redemption of Labor

| February 19, 2020 | Blog Contributor

Rehabilitation Through the Redemption of Labor
How would you feel if everyone knew you by the worst thing you ever did? What if, like a bearer of the scarlet letter, you were marked for scorn and distrusted by the majority of people around you? This is the life of a modern incarcerated individual. As the bearer of...
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Grant Dunnavan
Grant Dunnavan was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior at Wheaton College where he studies international relations.

Something Must Give

| February 14, 2020 | Blog Contributor

Something Must Give
“When we fight you, we make sure you can’t get away.” This is the message then-revolutionary leader Mao Tse-tung wanted his enemies to hear. Yet Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Chinese Nationalists, found this rival of his to be a fool. A military man with rigid,...
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Alexander Hale
Alexander Hale was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior business fellow majoring in finance, political science, and philosophy at Baylor University, while also pursuing a great texts minor within the Baylor honors program.

Recoding Choice: How Germline Gene Editing Impacts Conceptions of Freedom

| February 14, 2020 | Blog Contributor

Recoding Choice: How Germline Gene Editing Impacts Conceptions of Freedom
We don’t really have a choice but to assume everyone else has the freedom of choice. Our justice system, our statutes, and our American Dream largely tell of the person who chose to respect or break the social contract and to succeed or fail. But from time immemorial,...
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Katherine Cvancara
Katherine Cvancara was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a senior at George Fox University where she studies biology and political science.

China Holds No Cards

| December 11, 2019 | Blog Contributor

China Holds No Cards
It was 2 a.m., and my father and I had finally settled down for our flight from Shanghai to Beijing. Bleary-eyed, I was about to drift off to sleep, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I hadn’t realized it, but there was a Chinese teenager more or less my age sitting...
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Alexander Hale
Alexander Hale was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior business fellow majoring in finance, political science, and philosophy at Baylor University, while also pursuing a great texts minor within the Baylor honors program.

How Should the Church Engage in a Consumer Society?

| December 9, 2019 | Blog Contributor

How Should the Church Engage in a Consumer Society?
“To be prophetic is to host a world other than the one that is in front of us.” Christians, as theologian Walter Brueggemann so eloquently wrote, ought to be set apart, practicing faith and life in a way that is unique and attractive to those outside of the body of...
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Grant Dunnavan
Grant Dunnavan was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior at Wheaton College where he studies international relations.