Opinion

Topic: Contrast between 2020 and 2025. John Adams famously said, “Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The founders expected for the people to be virtuous for our system to work. How would virtue be maintained? Through voluntary religion, they said. Fast […]

Topic: Higher Education Deficiencies Today. Harvard was the first college created in America. It dates back to 1636. For the nearly three centuries of its existence, its motto in Latin was “Truth for Christ and the Church.” Sometime in the early 1900s, it cut off the last part of the phrase (the Christ and the […]

Topic: The Pulpit and the American Revolution. While we often hear the notion that the founders intended our government to be completely secular, the reality is that many pastors played a key role in the founding of America. So much so that some British critics of these liberty pastors called them “the black robed regiment.” […]

On October 19, 1781, in a battlefield not too far from Jamestown, America won its independence. The framers of this country said this was by the grace of God. We too should acknowledge the help of God, upon whom our rights are predicated, as the founders spelled out in the Declaration of Independence. In the […]

[Image from the ADF legal.org website] My wife and I had the privilege of attending the memorial service for Dr. James Clayton Dobson, Jr., in the greater Denver area this past Saturday. (He had died August 21.) The audience got to hear just a taste of Dobson’s incredible impact and of his humble, thoughtful, and […]