Apparently fewer Americans are reading the Bible daily. A Barna study on behalf of the American Bible Society came out last year (during the time of COVID-19) that showed a drop in the number of Americans who claim to read the Bible every day—from 14 percent to 9 percent. That seems strange since you would […]

Recently, a press release noted, “America is under siege from behind our own lines. A sinister and radical Left is systematically dismantling the very principles upon which America was founded—individual liberty, sacred freedoms, and equality for all. [Former Wisconsin] Governor Scott Walker, the new president of Young America’s Foundation (YAF), is fighting back with a […]

November 2021 marked the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving New Video Documentary Tells the Pilgrim Story ***Get your own copy through streaming at salemnow.com*** Thanksgiving 2021 was a milestone—Thanksgiving was first celebrated 400 years ago in 1621. There is a new Providence Forum documentary telling the true story of the Pilgrims. In their own […]

Slavery is evil, we all agree. Or do we? But slavery didn’t end in 1865. There is a credible case to be made that there is slavery today in China, among an ethic group called the Uyghurs (pronounced WEE-gers). The Uyghurs are mostly Muslims, but Wendy Wright, president of Christian Freedom International, says that included […]

The First Amendment to the Constitution begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Historically, it was understood that the prohibition of an “establishment of religion” meant that the federal government was disallowed from creating a national denomination. There would be no Church of America, like […]

The great 19th century Russian novelist Dostoyevsky once said, “Starting with unlimited freedom, I arrive at unlimited despotism.” Dr. Os Guinness (who earned his doctorate at Oxford) is one of the most thoughtful Christian spokespersons in modern evangelicalism. He is the author of about 30 books, including the IVP book, “Last Call for Liberty: How […]

Would the founders of America agree with socialism? Would Jesus agree with it? Despite its consistently abysmal track record, socialism has a lot of appeal among many Americans today. Some even claim that being a Christ-follower should make you a socialist, not one who believes in free enterprise. Economist Lawrence Reed of the Foundation for […]

The story of the English Bible is fascinating. Historian Harold Rawlings, author of Trial by Fire, joins Jerry Newcombe to talk about the struggle to get the Bible into the English language. Wycliffe and Tyndale and Coverdale should be household names. Rawlings is a collector of many old Bibles and manuscripts. https://www.haroldrawlings.com/  

If Jesus had never been born, to borrow a phrase from C. S. Lewis, it would be “always winter, but never Christmas.” But some Christians, even today, think of the celebration of Christmas as a pagan holiday. When the Pilgrims and the Puritans had the opportunity to assert their influence, they did not celebrate Christmas. […]

Recently, Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist wrote, “The bedrock of the American republic is that elections must be free, fair, accurate, and trusted. Election lawyers will tell you that fraud is almost impossible to conclusively find after the fact, and that to fight it, strong rules and regulations are needed on the front end. That’s […]