Facebook headlines are everywhere. A flood of news stories about Facebook malfeasance is swirling. Just four days ago the US congress formally asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify about the 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica data mining. The BIG FOUR tech companies—Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple—are the
“But the point is now determined, and I shall have the liberty to think for myself.” So wrote John Adams—the second US President—upon entering the study of law. Like the Berean Jews (Acts 17:11), Adams demonstrates the independent thinking of a free people. In his 2003 Jefferson Lecture on the
Hell exists because of human freedom. Both human freedom and human responsibility are major themes of Scripture. We see this in two trees, one in each testament. The Old Testament speaks of the tree in the midst of the garden. This is the affirming place of human freedom. In the
Recently I heard Eric Metaxas interview Dr. John C. Rankin about his latest book, provocatively titled The Freedom to Choose Hell. I was reminded of something C.S. Lewis writes in The Great Divorce: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be
Almost everyone knows Karl Marx. Very few have heard of Antonio Gramsci—including me until about two years ago. Even as a student of intellectual history in college, I was unaware of Gramsci or his theories. Yet, even more than Marx, Gramsci’s ideas have shaped the West by laying the ideological
A state has decided that parents cannot seek to save their child’s life. The state in this case is the National Health Service of Great Britain backed by European Court of Human Rights. The parents are Chris Gard and Connie Yates. The child is 10-month-old Charlie Gard. He has a
Sharia is not friendly to freedom Professor Allan Bloom opens his 1987 classic, The Closing of the American Mind, with this provocative statement: “There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative….” While at
Baronelle Stutzman, florist and grandmother On Friday we witnessed a travesty of justice and an attack on the 1st Amendment to the US constitution enshrining religious freedom and the freedom of conscience, speech and press. In a 9-0 decision, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled against the 72-year-old grandmother and florist, Barronelle Stutzman, for
Liberty doesn’t just happen. That’s the message of a writer whose work appears here for the first time. Our good friend Elizabeth Youmans recently put us on to a writer whose material we are eager to share with you. Mrs. Bobbie Ames is the founder of Emerald Mountain Christian School,
Liberty doesn’t just happen. That’s the message of a writer whose work appears here for the first time. Our good friend Elizabeth Youmans recently put us on to a writer whose material we are eager to share with you. Mrs. Bobbie Ames is the founder of Emerald Mountain Christian School,
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