For the sake of accuracy

Before proceeding, let the reader be clear: people who are equally heartily committed to the Bible’s truths confessed in the Three Forms of Unity and the Westminster Standards may disagree over how these truths are to be applied. The point of this post is a historical point, not a doctrinal difference, not a confessional disagreement, not [...]

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Banning ritual slaughter (2): Reformed chutzpah in the face of colliding interests

We reported earlier about the bill pending before the Second Chamber of the States General of The Netherlands, which aims to ban the ritual non-anesthetized slaughter of animals, a ritual that belongs to the historic practice of Judaism and Islam. Our earlier report contained an explanation of both the process of and the justification for [...]

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