Opinion

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 […]

The founders clearly delineate the roles of the three branches of government in the Constitution. In Article III, which deals with the courts, one can infer that they intended this to be the weakest of the three branches. Alexander Hamilton says as much in Federalist #81. But the courts have become powerful in our country, […]