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  • In the Shadow of the Capitol0

    Liberty magazine, which is just completing 100 years of continuous publication under its own name, had several precursor Seventh-day Adventist religious liberty magazines, starting with the American Sentinel magazine (1886-1900). With the exception of a few months in 1900 and 1901, when it was published by the International Religious Liberty Association in Chicago as The

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  • In the Name of Heaven: 3,000 Years of Religious Persecution0

    I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error. —Thomas Babington Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays, 1870

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  • In the Lions’ Den0

    Twenty some years ago I took my family (wife, toddler, and infant) to the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C. At one point I found myself alone, and I suddenly questioned my assumption that the toddler, my son, was with my wife, who also had the infant. As I stood in a gallery looking

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  • In the King’s Service0

    When Whittaker Chambers, the chief witness against Soviet spy Alger Hiss, reduced the cold war down to faith in God versus faith in man, anti-Communist secularists pounced. Leading the charge was the atheistic anti-Communist professor Sidney Hook, who asserted that the backbone of the resistance to Communism was made up of secularists like him. But

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  • In Search of Excep­tion­alism0

    Pity poor Queen Elizabeth II of England. She tried to give presidential visitor Trump a little background history of the long relationship between the mother country and the still somewhat new republic birthed by the once British Empire. Towering over the longest-serving monarch in modern times, Trump kept some decorum, but showed little sign he

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  • In Search of a Christian Nation0

    In recent years a number of church leaders have been pressing public claims that the United States has been a Christian nation since its beginning. Their argument is that the Founders of the nation were Christians, and that they wrote their Christianity into the Constitution and intended for this to be a Christian nation. Here

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