Respected American experts – including former federal legislators – in the field of religious freedom have lamented the dire state of religious freedom in Nigeria. On Tuesday, December 12, through Christopher Smith (Republican Party), a member of the U.S. House, representing New Jersey's 4th Congressional District, they called for the West African country to be designated as a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
A favorite hymn of mine, by fellow Sewanee alum William Alexander Percy, contemplates what peace means for Christians. It’s more complicated than we might think. Percy's meditation, set to the haunting tune of Georgetown, considers the simple, relatively quiet lives of the apostles prior to their conversion and contrasts that shallow “peace” to the peace of the Christian life. He concludes that Christian living is about peace in the strife.
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Pope John Paul II suggests that if we use Col. 3:18-22 to justify women's subordination, we follow in the footsteps of those who used these same verses to justify slavery. Thus white supremacy and complementarianism converge. Like two sides of the same coin, the two are different, but both create supremacies of power - white supremacy and male supremacy - that masquerade as righteousness.