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  • The Day0

    Roman Emperor Constantine was the first European leader to impose Sunday rest on much of the continent. More than 1,500 years later a contemporary movement to do so again started building momentum decades ago as the region pursued closer &”integration.&” In recent years, however, the expanding coalition to declare Sunday an official &”day of rest&”

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  • Noble and True0

    How often those who trusted the Word of God, though in themselves utterly helpless, have withstood the power of the whole world—Enoch, pure in heart, holy in life, holding fast his faith in the triumph of righteousness, against a corrupt and scoffing generation; Noah and his household against the men of his time, men of

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  • No Power Delegated0

    Certainly no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the general government. Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to the Rev. Samuel Miller, Jan. 23, 1808

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  • Faith and Home0

    Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that . . . of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support&” (Thomas Jefferson, 1807). All across the

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  • Earth and Sky0

    Colorful as our cover is for this issue, it puts me to mind of an old black and white movie. In 1957, Swedish playwright Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed The Seventh Seal. The title was taken from Revelation 8, verse 1: &”And when [the Lamb] had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven 

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  • Bully on the Block0

    ??The school bully—singular—used to be the kid who’d turn the other kids upside down and shake the milk money out of their pockets. Times have certainly changed. These days bullies are everywhere, and today a bully doesn’t even need size to gain an advantage. The Internet has leveled the playing field, and geeks are as

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