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When Spiritual Coercion Shows Up on Campus
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Nov 23, 2025
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Well, the day finally arrived—just as I told her it would.
Almost a decade after our first conversation about it, my daughter was ambushed at lunch with “God’s plan for salvation.”
Spiritual coercion in broad daylight.
When she was ten, I wrote a blog getting her opinion on The Four Spiritual Laws. Her...
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