We are saddened and troubled by the news that after a 17-year moratorium, our federal government has decided to resume state-sponsored and sanctioned execution at the federal correctional institution in Terre Haute, Ind.
The murder of a human person by another human person is abhorrent and deeply painful. Like you, we grieve the murder of any person and reach out in pastoral care for those who mourn their deaths. However, it is important to underscore that the United States is the only developed nation that continues to believe that state-sponsored execution is a deterrent to others who commit violent crimes.
A sign with Arabic writing Palestine the land of Jesus is eager for justice, peace and stability is seen at the Lady of Peace church. | AP/Nasser Nasser
A coalition of 17 Christian groups and denominations have asked President-elect Joe Biden to roll back the Trump administration s policies pertaining to Palestinian territories and Israel.
In an open letter sent to Biden last Friday, the church groups stated that “the Christian community in Israel/Palestine continues to suffer as a result of the ongoing [Israeli] occupation.”
“As Palestinian Christians continue to emigrate, we face the real prospect that the survival of the indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land may soon be in danger,” they stated.
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evil foretold in the New Testament
book of Revelation will occur after
the end of the world as we know it; a literal interpretation of prophecies
of the end of days
The Fundamentals:
a set of essays by multiple authors, published from 1910 to 1915, advocating traditionalist Protestant views such as premillennialism and biblical inerrancy); origin of the term “fundamentalist” to refer to someone subscribing to these views
Second, many of these attitudes, especially among evangelicals, reflect the strong historical tradition of Protestant voluntarism. Even before the American Revolution, leading clergymen like John Witherspoon made clear that they saw robust religious institutions as a precondition underlying their belief in the argument for limited government that they took from political theorists like Locke and Montesquieu. Witherspoon was himself an influential figure in the debate over the creation of the new United States he signed the Declaration of Indep