Tag: religion

THEY WERE BELIEVERS, JAMES MADISON Madison letter to William Bradford, 9 November 1772 My Dear Billey, You moralize so prettily that if I were to judge from...

Called Unto Liberty, Founding Era Sermons, Charles Chauncy Charles Chauncy (1705–1787). The most influential clergyman in the Boston of his time and—apart from Jonathan Edwards...

Thomas Jefferson Leadership In matters of Religion, I have considered that it’s free exercise is placed by the constitution independant of the powers of the...

Thomas Jefferson Leadership ...the Baptist address now inclosed ... furnishes an occasion too, which I have long wished to find, of saying why I do...

Thomas Jefferson Leadership Averse to recieve addresses, yet unable to prevent them, I have generally endeavored to turn them to some account, by making them...

CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS, STANLEY GRISWOLD, 1801 A Yale graduate in 1786 and Congregational clergyman at New Milford, Connecticut, Griswold led a checkered...

THE AMERICAN TRADITION: CLARENCE CARSON Source: The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Date 01 March 1964 Writers in the twentieth century have often entertained them­selves (and presumably their...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP the mild and simple principles of the Christian philosophy, would produce too much calm, too much regularity of good, to extract from...

GARY L. WELTON, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES A pastor friend of mine, not trying to be irreverent or sacrilegious, once shared with me his...

DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY. Elder L. Tom Perry, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of...

ABIGAIL A. SOUTHERLAND, ACLJ Last week Congress heard testimony from individuals in Iraq and Syria who have personally witnessed the extreme brutality of ISIS –...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL Lakeland, FL – Polk State College responded to the case involving a professor who is proselytizing militant atheism at Polk State....

GEOFFREY SURTEES, ACLJ It is not often that a Supreme Court Justice uses a personal anecdote to illustrate a point in a written opinion.  Almost...

EDWARD WHITE, ACLJ A terrorist attack took place in Garland, Texas, this week in response to a free speech conference that took issue with the...

MATTHEW CLARK, ACLJ Jihad struck Texas last night.  It’s just the latest skirmish in a global radical Islamic assault on free speech – on freedom. It’s...

CECE HEIL, ACLJ Abortion, simply put, is the murder of an unborn child.  This is a barbaric reality that the Left has realized is hard...

CECE HEIL, ACLJ Abortion, simply put, is the murder of an unborn child.  This is a barbaric reality that the Left has realized is hard...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL Washington, DC - Late last night the Supreme Court ruled in favor of religious rights over ObamaCare’s abortion mandate. Judge Samuel...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY Bills have been introduced in the West Virginia and Oklahoma state legislatures to encourage public schools to offer Bible electives. These electives...

JAY SEKULOW, ACLJ “You will not have safety even in your dreams, until you accept Islam,” declares a masked figure, speaking English with an American...

MATTHEW CLARK, ACLJ President Obama, who won’t call out radical Islam for beheading Christians, is spewing verbal vitriol against Christians. President Obama began his remarks at...

Nicole Smith, ACLJ Twenty-one Egyptians beheaded.  Seventeen Pakistanis bombed.  One hundred and forty-eight Kenyans shot.  All of these innocent men and women met their demise...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY Who would have thought, only a few years ago, that our basic First Amendment right of free speech would be under attack...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY A new survey reveals that the percentage of college students who are depressed is at record high levels. At the same time,...

CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, 20TH CENTURY SERMONS: HARTMAN RECTOR JR. October 1972 The story of Joseph, the son of Jacob who was called Israel, is a vivid...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY President Barack Obama inserted a jarring note in his speech to the annual Prayer Breakfast by insulting Christians with an inappropriate reference...

BY DENNIS BEHREANDT At the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama, our post-Christian President, took a swipe at Christians. We must “remember”, he preached, that “during...

BY STEVE FARRELL “I suppose persons who mouth the slogan think they are saying something profound. In fact, if that is an argument at...

GARY S. SMITH, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Religious deception and hucksterism is certainly not a new phenomenon. From Sinclair Lewis’ Elmer Gantry to televangelist...

PAUL G. KENGOR, CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES Ecumenism at its best was recently demonstrated at the Vatican, where dozens of faith leaders worldwide assembled...