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, […]

The largest granite statue in America is in Plymouth, MA. It’s called the Forefathers Monument. Kirk Cameron made a movie about it a decade ago—“Monumental.” The statue was unveiled in August 1889. In August 1989, Dr. D. James Kennedy spoke to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this amazing faith-promoting statue. Michelle Gallagher of Plymouth has put […]

Can a small group of committed believers change the world? Yes. A classic book worth knowing about is by historian Rod Gragg, author of Forged in Faith, By the Hand of Providence, and other books about American history—showing the key role of Christianity in it. The book is The Pilgrim Chronicles: An Eyewitness History of the […]

  Throughout America’s history, many times there have been calls for prayer. Even Thanksgiving is a day delegated for national thanksgiving to God. Here’s an example of the Continental Congress from March 16, 1776 calling for a national day of “humiliation fasting, and prayer, “that we may with united hearts confess and bewail our manifold sins and […]

America’s founders said our rights come from God. This is enshrined in our national birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence. And yet many of the intellectual elites in the West (including in America) in the last century or so have abandoned belief in the Creator. The theory of evolution helped grease the skids toward unbelief. […]

  Topic: 400th Anniversary of the First Thanksgiving 2021 marks the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving celebrated in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Who were the Pilgrims? What is their story? What is the story of the first Thanksgiving? Dr. Paul Jehle is a Christian educator, a pastor, and an author. He is one of the foremost authorities alive […]

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 […]

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 […]