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What's your conception of God? It could affect your politics.
A theologian's test could help us reclaim our political lives
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Bryce Tolpen
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August 2024

The Declaration's constitution
In 1776 and 2017, lawyers discovered our constitution in dark times
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Tyranny's freedoms
Under a dictatorship, would we live any differently?
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Statues riffing on statues: An interview with Zaq Landsberg
Landsberg's "middle-school jackassery" starts overdue public conversations
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July 2024

The three lives of Betty Lanier
My mother-in-law finds justice after death
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"Jesus is Lord": a public stand against sovereignty
Theocracy, eschatology, and the balanced constitution
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Flight & freedom, early & late
Manned flight and U.S. independence were achieved in 1783, but both gave way to empire
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June 2024

Voting isn't democratic. It's oligarchic.
Supplement it with democratic practice
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The beauty of proximity
In Arlandria, three young women live with undocumented immigrants (and with cockroaches, bedbugs, and rats) to learn Jesus's public way
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Public space wants place
Civil Rights icon Jim Lawson, who died Sunday, had an urban designer's vision
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The church saves Mussolini
100 years ago this month, Mussolini got in legal trouble. But it would spell the end of Italy's rule of law.
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May 2024

No "male and female"
The resurrection ends the curse of patriarchy
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