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Christians in sync with the universal church understand that their faith is a call to service, not a passport for privilege or a banner for political conquest.

In other words, everything that God's Word predicts will come to pass. But exactly when or how these prophecies will pan out is not always so clear. What is abundantly clear, however, is that what God's people do and the way the world responds is factored into it.

In other words, everything that God's Word predicts will come to pass. But exactly when or how these prophecies will pan out is not always so clear. What is abundantly clear, however, is that what God's people do and the way the world responds is factored into it.

On Wednesday, a North Carolina Senate bill that would permit the use of medical marijuana for the first time in North Carolina cleared the second of four committee steps. The bipartisan Senate Bill 711, titled “NC Compassionate Care Act,” is the latest in a 12-year attempt to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposess. The bill still must clear — in this order — the Health Care and Rules and Operations committees before a potential Senate floor vote. Political analysts say the Health Care committee may be the most challenging of the four steps. The pathway through the stat...

For more than a decade, North Carolina’s Democratic legislators have pushed one form or another of a medical marijuana bill, intended to safely, under strictly controlled conditions, allow cannabis to be used to alleviate one or another type of pain. They inevitably went nowhere. But now that conservative, rock-ribbed Republicans are promoting a medical marijuana bill, success is more likely. It brings to mind the political metaphor: Only Nixon could go to China. The N.C. Compassionate Care Act is actually a bipartisan bill: Its primary sponsors are Sen. Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, chairman...