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  • America's Founding Protestant Philosophy0

    The public discussion of religion and religious freedom is generally dominated by two increasingly polarized viewpoints. The first view, largely promoted by President Obama and Democrats, values a religion-free, basically secular public square, with a certain amount of lip service paid to freedom for religious persons and groups, but a general denial of that freedom

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  • America’s Spiritual Warriors0

    What helped fuel the toxic blend of religious and political fervor displayed by some on January 6, 2021? For anyone seeking answers, The New Apostolic Reformation may be the most important movement you’ve never heard of. Illustrations by Scott Bakal There’s an insurgent new political force in American Christianity that is bringing about a powerful

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  • America Comes to Rome0

    When the Vatican announced last fall through Archbishop Pietro Sambi, papal nuncio to the United States, that Pope Benedict XVI would be visiting the United States, "professional Catholics," pundits, clerics, and even politicians debated the meaning and message of his first papal "voyage" to the United States. In fact, it had been nearly 10 years

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  • Amazing!0

    John Newton, the eighteenth-century slave-ship captain who was converted to Christianity and became a small-town vicar and renowned hymn writer, is remembered today for his beloved &”Amazing Grace.&” This song, once confined to Evangelical churches, has become an anthem of modern-day Christianity, and is heard in Catholic and Protestant churches, in parades and military events,

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  • Altering Consciousness for Liberty0

    IRLA  NEWS RELEASE  The second IRLA Inter-American Religious Liberty Congress was held in Medellín, Colombia, March 18-19, 2015, in the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel. The theme was: “Church-State Relations, Why Are They Important and How to Improve Them?” A large public rally in the city followed the event and showed broad public and official

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  • All Our Children0

    A few years ago, before the Iron Curtain/Berlin Wall collapsed, I visited Communist Bulgaria with my father and our family. Oh, might as well come clean—it was more than a few decades ago! It was well back in the days when the Communist bloc seemed to fit President Reagan's description as being "the evil empire."

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