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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 ...

“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle,” said President George Washington in his farewell address. But Washington’s words can be more broadly understood as a good representation of how ...

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. —John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630) Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit govern-ment either for church or ...

In times of cultural failure and upheaval, there are usually two kinds of extremists.  Those who abandon any established order as a thing beyond redemption, and those who remain within the system, hoping they can reform it.  New England was ...

When you hear the word “church,” do you first think of a building or a people? Famous revivalist Leonard Ravenhill said: “In the church in Acts, the Scripture says they were all amazed, but today, everyone just wants to be ...