This blog highlights one of the most important truths for understanding America’s story—and our calling in this 250th anniversary year. One of the great myths of our age is that freedom can exist apart from a moral and spiritual foundation. Yet a people who believe that eventually surrender the very
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And
God made humans to be free. But free societies do not fall from heaven; they are born within the hearts of people, grounded in biblical principles, and established through obedience to all that Christ commanded. That mandate comes in the context of a war for the hearts and minds of
At heart of the biblical narrative, both in the Hebrew and Greek testaments, are two related fundamental revelations: the nature of man and the nature of freedom. Judeo-Christian theism reveals that human beings are made in the image of God. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image,
In April, in the midst of the CCP Coronavirus, I discovered a Hebrew word that has changed the world and could change your life. The word is found in Genesis 4:1-16, the story of Cain and Abel. As you remember, Abel kept sheep and Cain tilled the ground. At the
Self-isolated at home during the Coronavirus storm I have plenty of time to ponder what will come of this, one of the most profound events in my lifetime. I find the isolation difficult; I want to see my grandkids and be with my family. It is also a time many
What does it take to sustain freedom? Freedom isn’t the natural condition of fallen human beings. Our default setting is bondage, either internally through various addictions and idolatries, or externally though tyranny. Freedom is fragile and requires a precise ideological ecosystem to sustain. As we often say, ideas have consequences.
One of our favorite organizations is Alliance Defending Freedom, founded January 31, 1994 to give the church an arm of engagement in the public square. As stated at their web page, With that launch [of the ADF], the Christian community gained growing awareness that the threats to its freedom were
By far the most widely read of all our blogs is School vs. Education: The Difference Matters. Now Canadian essayist and poet David Solway has written a disturbing piece of similar tone at PJ Media, The End of Education. Consider this excerpt: It has taken a hundred years to ruin
Kimberly Brancato and her sons In January 2017, I accepted a temporary job teaching Language Arts to eighth graders at Highland Park Middle School in central New Jersey. I took over the established curriculum, teaching Animal Farm by George Orwell. During my second week, several students said that newly elected
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