Roberto Rivera

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  May 11, 2019

  Disabilities, identity and healing: Should we even want to be made whole?

  What matters most nowadays, apparently, is not what Jesus was feeling when He was moved to heal, but how it makes some contemporary readers feel when they read about those stories.

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  May 6, 2019

  Sinners in the hands of an angry planet?

  Today, secular political discourse includes not only utopian substitutes of the New Heaven and New Earth, but also secular versions of the Apocalypse.

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  Apr 30, 2019

  Sri Lanka: Why was it so hard to say the victims were Christians?

  The default identifier by left-leaning politicians on Twitter was “Easter worshipers.” Seeing a phrase that hardly anyone ever uses repeated by so many was, well, just weird.

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  Apr 29, 2019

  Academic and corporate wokeness: The real threat to religious freedom

  Yale’s blatant discrimination against people with traditional religious beliefs is an important reminder of where the greatest challenge to religious freedom currently lies in our culture.

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  Apr 22, 2019

  Restoring those who've served their time

  Second Chance Month is, in the words of Prison Fellowship, a “bipartisan national movement” to address what it calls the “second prison.”

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  Apr 17, 2019

  Religious freedom is for all or it will be for none

  The New York Times recently told the story of Maha Kassef, an elementary school teacher in Montreal who, like many teachers, dreams of one day being a principal. That dream may never happen, and for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with her qualifications.

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  Apr 15, 2019

  Trump's empty noise on religious freedom and refugees

  Unless the U.S. is willing to admit persecuted religious minorities as refugees, the Potomac Declaration, as well as all those great speeches by those amazing leaders at the Ministerial are nothing but empty noise.

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  Apr 11, 2019

  Saying animals have culture diminishes humans

  One of the things that’s behind the tendency to anthropomorphize bears, dogs, and other animals is the belief that animals and people are locked in a kind of “zero sum” game, as if the only way to assure the continued survival of animals is to deny and/or diminish how distinctly different they are from humans.

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  Apr 10, 2019

  Making abortion illegal and unthinkable

  Even if we see a complete reversal of Roe that explicitly states that a woman has no constitutional right to an abortion, abortion will still remain legal in many states, especially on the east and west coasts.

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  Apr 4, 2019

  Marijuana and psychosis: Real data, real bad

  A new study concluded that “people who smoked marijuana on a daily basis were three times more likely to be diagnosed with psychosis compared with people who never used the drug.