Opinion

America’s story, including its Judeo-Christian heritage, can be told through an exploration of many of the nation’s holidays. Scott Powell of the Discovery Institute has recently written a book on America’s special days, Rediscovering America: How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story about Who We Are. This book includes chapters on Columbus Day, Martin […]

In 1630, hundreds of Puritans sailed to America to go on to create the city of Boston. This was the first major wave of Puritans coming to the New World. Plymouth in 1620 created by the Pilgrims, who were separatists, created a toehold in the New World in what would become New England. The Pilgrims […]

Topic: American Renewal. Recently Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at Notre Dame. He noted that as a young man, he had adopted some anti-American sentiments, but: “As I matured…I began to see that the theories of my young adulthood were destructive and self-defeating…..I had rejected my country, my birthright as a citizen, and […]

At one time, Madelyn Murray O’Hair was America’s best-known atheist. She won one of the key anti-school prayer cases at the Supreme Court. Her son, William J. Murray, who was 14 at the time, was the plaintiff in the case. But William later became a Christian and even wrote a classic book, My Life Without […]

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” wrote Yeats in “The Second Coming.” He penned those words in 1919, but as David Lehman once observed in the Wall Street Journal, those words provide a “summary of the present age.” Yet through it all, God is at work even when things look bleak—perhaps especially when things […]