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Roland’s Red Pencil 0

Only a few days before this issue of Liberty went to press its longest-serving editor went to his rest. Roland R. Hegstad edited Liberty for one-third of its tenure. For many of us in the religious liberty world he had long since become a legend. For me, a Seventh-day Adventist editor, he had long been

American Exceptionalism Examined 0

If Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), the celebrated French author of Democracy in America, awakened in present-day America, he would likely be deeply shocked by the polarization, radicalism, and most of all the hostility between liberalism and religion. For what he found so exceptional during his visit to America in the 1830s was that, contrary to

A Capital Decision?0

On December 6, 2017, President Donald Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The decree fulfilled one of several campaign promises he made in an effort to woo evangelical voters. That strategy paid off, as 81 percent of White evangelicals cast their votes for Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The president’s edict

Not Self-rising 0
- July/August 2018
- July 1, 2018
This summer the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision in a difficult case that pits the free exercise of religion and free speech rights of a wedding cake maker against the rights of a same-sex couple to be accommodated in the marketplace. The couple demands the cake; the baker refuses because he
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The Ceremony of Innocence 0
- May/June 2018
- May 1, 2018
The title is a line from a 1920 poem by W. B. Yeats. I’ve often quoted it before and applied its post WW1 angst to our day. But this phrase jumped out at me as I was listening to the news. The line, in full, goes like this: “And everywhere the ceremony of innocence is
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What’s Yours Is Mine No Treaties, No Boundary Lines 0
- May/June 2018
- May 1, 2018
Illustration by Robert Hunt The recent Dakota Access Pipeline saga reminds us of the long ongoing struggle for Native American rights. Dakota Territory, July 1874 Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clinched the reigns of his regal brown-and-white sorrel horse, then squinted hard into the distance. Ahead lay a dark patch sprawled across the ascending Dakota
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