Opinion

Should school choice include religious schools? Recently, the Supreme Court said that it should. The Alliance Defending Freedom (the ADF) declared at the time of this victory in favor of the religious schools: “The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Carson v. Makin that the state of Maine cannot exclude students who attend religious schools from a […]

Chaplains in America are older than the nation. This includes military chaplains and legislative chaplains. America’s first great historian George Bancroft said during the time of the Revolutionary War: “Eloquent chaplains kept alive the custom of daily prayer and weekly sermons.” Also during the war, some were encouraged to serve as chaplains, if they were […]

We are often given the impression that science has somehow disproved God or the Christian religion. But Dr. Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute holds that the more scientific discoveries that come out, there is actually more reason to believe in God. The issue over God is not some small point since our nation’s founders […]

What is the story of Liberty? It is a story that endures through the centuries, beginning among the Hebrews. This discussion includes liberty among the ancient Greeks, Romans, during the Medieval period, and the Reformation. Dr. Peter Lillback is the founder and president emeritus of the Providence Forum, an organization dedicated to teaching Americans about […]

The First Amendment to the Constitution begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” But beginning in 1947, the Supreme Court took an obscure letter from Thomas Jefferson that he had written to a group of Baptists in Connecticut, and he quoted the first amendment and […]