During the American founding era, week after week, on Sunday mornings, the congregation members would arise and recite together The Apostles’ Creed, a historic statement of the Christian faith. Often it was written on the walls. Who participated regularly in such affirmation of their faith? George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson*, James Madison, and so […]

They’re killing Christians in other countries, often with impunity. And many Christians in America seem either ignorant or apathetic about it. Perhaps many of us fail to act because  we are not sure how we can help. But religious freedom is exceedingly important. America began because of anti-Christian persecution. Many of the original colonies were […]

Topic: Same-sex Marriage Versus Religious Freedom. The first freedom listed in our Bill of Rights, that is, the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution was religious freedom. America was largely founded for and upon the principle of religious liberty. But sometimes immoral laws can impede that religious liberty. It’s a zero sum game. An example […]

Topic: A Threat to American Religious Liberty in the mid-1700s. The original settlers of America came primarily for religious purposes. That’s certainly true for the Pilgrims who founded Plymouth and the Puritans, who founded Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, and what became the state of Connecticut. As the New England Confederation of 1643, these various […]

Topic: The Bible on Trial. The Bible played a key role in helping to create the United States of America. Our 7th president Andrew Jackson called the Bible, “the book upon which our republic rests.” What if the Bible were to be put on trial? How would it fare in a court of law? There is […]

Topic: Reviving Christian Influence on our Culture. In a new film from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center, Dr. Os Guinness is on a quest to see if the West, including America, can get back to the ideas that helped give it birth and helped it to flourish into the incredible civilization we’ve […]

Topic: Persecuted Church Around the World this Christmas Season. The United States of America was ultimately founded by Christians of different denominations seeking religious freedom. The first freedom listed in the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, that is, the Bill of Rights, is religious freedom. America is sensitive to the issue of religious freedom, […]

Topic: Reviving Our Republic: 95 Theses for the Future of America. Has America squandered 250 years of freedom? Is it too late? The Ascot Media Group writes, “As America nears its 250th birthday, Navy veteran and civic reform advocate Michael Bedenbaugh warns that the nation is at risk of losing what he calls ‘250 years […]

Topic: The Pilgrims and Socialism. The Pilgrims were able to come over on the Mayflower because of some financial backers in England. One of the stipulations of these backers was that in the New World they would hold all things in common. This led to a type of socialism that the Pilgrims were saddled with. […]

Topic: Religious Freedom Threatened in California. America for the most part was founded by Christians for religious liberty, which they then extended to people of other faiths or no faith. But today, because of an anti-Christian bias and misunderstanding of the Constitution, we find that often Christians or Christian viewpoints are being discriminated against in […]