Every four years, with a new inaugural address from the president of the United States, it is remarkable how every president has mentioned God in one way or another. And yet all the usual suspects from the militant atheist crowd have been trying to block the Bible from being used—a tradition that began with President […]

Topic: Cancel Culture and America’s Founding  Many elements in our society are at war with America as founded. First, we have seen a steady erosion of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage. Now, we’re seeing many attacking America’s founding. Statue toppling of some key figures in America’s past are a symptom of this phenomenon. Author Stephen McDowell is […]

America’s settlers and founders worked very hard and were blessed with great prosperity by the grace of God. They were blessed by what is known as the Protestant work ethic, where they worked hard and saved well. They delayed gratification, and they reinvested their earnings for future gains. Ben Franklin grew up in Puritan Boston, […]

Don’t Miss These Podcasts that Have Been Recently Added to the Providence Forum Website >The founders of America spoke often of natural law. What does that mean? And how does that relate to God? John Eidsmoe is a renowned scholar of the Constitution and of the law and has written books on the development of […]

Topic: Hollywood and Patriotism Ted Baehr, publisher of MOVIEGUIDE, is one sense a “missionary to Hollywood.” There was a time when Hollywood was much more patriotic than it is today. John Wayne and “Yankee Doodle Dandy” have given way to the movies of Oliver Stone. The work of Mel Gibson is an obvious exception to […]

The Scourge of Abortion We look back in horror at “Christians” who owned slaves and justified it—sometimes even using the Scriptures for that. How will future generations look back at us where the scourge of abortion stalks the land? Since “Roe v. Wade,” there have been at least 60 million abortions. Abortion is now the […]

The founders of America said that our rights come from the Creator and the purpose of government was to honor those rights. In contrast, the regime of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s and 40s was based on a totally different worldview—one predicated on the assumption that pure Darwinian evolution was the […]

“Liberal censorship” is technically an oxymoron. But today liberal censorship is a common reality. Where once free speech reigned on college campuses and in other secular institutions (or at least it was so thought), today you have the totalitarianism of political correctness. Say the wrong thing, and you may be fired. Dissenting Justice Samuel Alito […]

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] One of the greatest milestones in world history was March 4, 1797. Why? What happened then? America, under the guidance of the Constitution, transitioned from our first president to our second. George Washington stepped down, and the recently-elected John Adams stepped in. No bloodshed. No rioting in the […]

A nation that does not remember its past does not know its future. James S. Robbins, Ph.D., a writer for USA TODAY, has written the book, “Erasing America: Losing Our Future by Destroying Our Past.” In the last year, we have seen an unprecedented number of historical statues torn down by mobs or voted down […]