What is the pursuit of happiness as articulated in the Declaration of Independence? Pause for a moment and ask yourself, what does that phrase mean? And what did Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the others who signed it, understand it to mean? It certainly did
There is a recurring theme in the Scriptures: “Blessed (happy) is the nation whose God is the Lord.” Both corporate and individual happiness has little to do with “hap” and everything to do with recognizing God as the center of personal and national life. This is what the Founding Fathers
The Pursuit of Happiness When you think of “happiness,” what comes to mind? My pastor recently preached through the book of Philippians and contrasted joy and happiness this way: Happiness is fleeting, transitory, and based on circumstances. Joy, on the other hand, remains-despite our circumstances-if it rests on a deep
We have said that there are two moral and metaphysical visions for the United States. We are no longer “one nation under God,” but two nations. One nation is grounded in Judeo-Christian theism and the other founded in an Atheistic-Materialistic vision. These two nations occupy one geographic land. Some people
But it is here that we need to make a distinction. This is a distinction that most people, including Barack Obama, fail to make. The distinction is between what we might call ideological pluralism and political/social pluralism. Dictionary.com provides us with several definitions of pluralism. Two of these definitions can
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