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Timothy R. Butler, Editor-in-Chief

Ed Hurst, Associate Editor

Jason Kettinger, Contributing Editor

Eduardo Sánchez, Contributing Editor

Dennis E. Powell, Columnist

Steven Hatfield, Associate Editor Emeritus

John-Thomas Richards, Contributing Editor Emeritus

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For information about contributing guest editorials or becoming a regular contributor, contact Editor-in-Chief Timothy R. Butler at tbutler@ofb.biz. Open for Business accepts commentaries and other works on technology, current events, politics, philosophy, business and other relevant matters for publication. Commentaries should generally be 600-800 words in length, other works vary but should be kept to less than 1500 words in almost all cases. The editors also reserve the right to change the wording, but not meaning of submitted works for the purposes of proper grammar, clarity, or space.

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The Danger of Peacemaker

By Timothy R. Butler

Here is a story. The leaders of a church have a personal agenda against someone and want to quiet him, exact revenge or what have you. They not only come at him within their church, they continue by following him outside of that church to any other church he seeks refuge at and any place he works, making a wreck of his life in the process. That is the sort of thing that only happened in the past, in dusty tales of witch-hunts in Salem or the Inquisition in Spain, right? Wrong: it is happening today, perhaps at a seemingly normal church near you.

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