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If we’re honest, breaking the Fourth Commandment is one we might be not feel as bad about as breaking the other nine. Certainly, if you kill, commit adultery, or make a carved image, you should and usually do feel guilty. ...

It always amazes me how young our children are when we see rebellion in them. I recall that our toddler daughter didn’t want to submit to my authority – or her mom’s authority. If she didn’t want to eat her ...

Imagine someone coming up to you and saying, “I want to write a memoir about your life. In my biography of you, you are an Olympic athlete, you’re terrible at personal relationships, and you live with 25 birds and 10 ...

Stop reading this for a moment, and try to say the Ten Commandments from memory. Do you know them? Many people may have heard about them on the news, but they have never read them. Exodus 20:7 lists the first ...

If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.        — Justice William Brennan, Texas v. Johnson ...

When the managing director of an Australian power company last fall suggested that those who leave the electric grid and rely on solar power exclusively are “greedy and selfish,” a fair amount of off-the-grid enthusiasts balked. Paul Adams, managing director ...

The backdrop of opinions on the Bible vary from contempt to celebration. Some are bothered by passages they don’t understand; others are troubled by the ones they do. Scripture is seen by some as a stumbling block in the path ...

“But between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” —John Marshall, Life of Washington (1805) “At no time, at no place, in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, have the American ...

  “Boy: It’s not easy to become a law, is it?” Bill: “No!” —Dave Frishberg, Schoolhouse Rock, “I’m Just a Bill” (1975)   “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were ...

Have you ever forgiven someone who didn’t deserve it? Or, do you find it hard to forgive? Regardless of which category you fall into, this post is for you. In many respects, our culture has come to reject the idea ...