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Ethics and Religion Talk: Orthodoxy - Do you have an obligation to straighten someone's beliefs?

by (Rabbi David J.B...)

Submitted 08-08-2022 under OPINION

If a member of your flock approaches you with an honest admission that he or she no longer believes in a core doctrine of your religion (afterlife, the idea of God, salvation, etc.), would you consider it your duty to bring this person back into the...

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Ethics and Religion Talk: Crises of Faith, part 2

by (Rabbi David J.B...)

Submitted 03-28-2022 under OPINION

Eight of our panelists responded to this question. I shared the first four responses last week, and are are the rest: Imam Kip Curnutt, Director of Religious Education and Associate Imam of Masjid At-Tawheed in Grand Rapids, responds: “When it...

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Ethics and Religion Talk: Crises of Faith, part 1

by (Rabbi David J.B...)

Submitted 03-23-2022 under OPINION

Eight of our panelists responded to this question. I’m sharing the first four this week, and the rest in next week’s column. Rev. Ray Lanning, a retired minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, responds: “...

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