Freedom Requires Limits

Freedom does not mean the absence of constraints or moral absolutes. Suppose a skydiver at 10,000 feet announces to the rest of the group, "I'm ...

Freedom Comes Slowly

Antislavery bills of one sort or another were defeated in Parliament for 11 consecutive years before the act abolishing the slave trade was passed in ...

The Crusade Against Slavery

Evangelical abolitionists have received high praise from secular commentators. For example, nineteenth-century historian W.E.H. Lecky said, "The unweary, ...

The Story of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913)

The "Moses" who set people free

In 1849 Tubman, a Baltimore slave, escaped to Philadelphia and freedom. She returned ...

Why God Is Not to Blame

It was still light out, when the young woman left the campus library to walk to her car in a well-lit parking lot. She was accosted brutalized, raped. ...

Some Things Can't Be Forced

The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to will to put it into ...

The Freedom of Saving Grace

Saving grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a slave is willing to leave his galley, or a prisoner his dungeon, or a thief his bolts, or ...

We Are Already Set Free

I knew an old Glasgow professor named MacDonald who, along with a Scottish chaplain, had bailed out of an airplane behind German lines. They were put ...

Laughter of the Redeemed

Easter is a feast and is celebrated as the feast of freedom. For Easter is the beginning of the laughter of the redeemed and the dance of the liberated ...

The Advantage of Hope

Hope prevents us from clinging to what we have and frees us to move away from the safe place and enter unknown and fearful territory.