Worldview

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...

Image source: Pixabay.com If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because...

Image source: Pixabay.com When the managing director of an Australian power company last fall suggested that those who leave the electric grid and rely on solar...

Image source: Pixabay.com The backdrop of opinions on the Bible vary from contempt to celebration. Some are bothered by passages they don’t understand; others are troubled...

“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,...

Image source: Pixabay.com   "Boy: It's not easy to become a law, is it?" Bill: "No!" —Dave Frishberg, Schoolhouse Rock, “I’m Just a Bill” (1975)  ...

Image source: Flickr Have you ever forgiven someone who didn’t deserve it? Or, do you find it hard to forgive? Regardless of which category you fall...

Image source: Pixabay.com "Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle," said President George Washington in...

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...

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...