Flee "Establishment Fright"

It's not our position that sectarian prayer has a place in public schools, although a high-school course in comparative religions would seem appropriate ...

Failure and Perseverance

When he was seven years old, his family was forced out of their home on a legal technicality, and he had to work to help support them. At age nine, his ...

Political Loyalties Are Secondary

Political loyalties can never be as deep or as broad as the bond that unites believers in Christ.

Christianity During the Revolution

These historical items highlight the ways in which religion and politics were linked at the time of America's founding:

In July 1775, as tensions with ...

A Christmas Revolution

It was on Christmas Eve, after a Romanian church had gathered for candlelight service, that the Communist soldiers came to take the pastor. The people ...

Conversion Is the Ultimate Power

In Russia, in 1989, the number-one graduate-study subject was conversion, but not from a Christian or spiritual point of view. They understood the political ...

Blessing the White House

President John Adams, before he joined his wife Abigail at their new official residence in Washington, D.C., sent her a prayer, which more than a hundred ...

Providence, R.I., Bethlehem, Pa …

Number of places in the United States named after something in the Bible: 61,742

Liberty and Justice for Me

The quest for freedom is becoming personal rather than political. It is a quest of self-hood, and its outcome is no better. When self-denial goes out ...

Religion and Politics

The problem isn't how to keep religion out of politics but how to subject political life to spiritual criticism without losing sight of the tension ...