Teach Us to Pray0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

The increasing attempts by many "good people" to Christianize the United States by law rather than by evangelism has even reached the Supreme Court. The gospel commission given by Jesus is "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations," not "Go ye therefore, and compel all nations!" Even though we see what religion in government can

Students, Teachers, And Religious Freedom0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

An editorial in the February 24, 2004, News-Star, Monroe, Louisiana, pointed out that the Monroe School Board has voted unanimously to introduce elective Bible classes for eighth-grade students beginning this fall. Fourteen school systems in Louisiana and 153 across the nation already offer Bible as history and/or literature courses. According to the News-Star editorial, the

Indespensable Supports0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

In the Shadow of the Capitol0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

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

God and Country0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

It's a brave—though some might instead say unwise—individual who chooses to resist the might and authority of the United States Marine Corps. Created by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775—238 days before the Declaration of Independence was signed—the Marines have become, and are today, a formidable fighting force whose motto, "Semper Fidelis," Latin for

Evolution and Intelligent Design0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

According to InterVarsity Press, "The intelligent design theory has become the center of a growing controversy among state boards of education around the country as school board members and parents ask their local school boards to allow intelligent design to be taught in their science classrooms." Intelligent design is a truth-claim about the origin of

Coming up for Air0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

In so many ways we seem at the flood stage of late. The December 2004 Tsunami gave reality to a global fear of an insatiable ocean intent on creating another Atlantis. Hurricane Katrina became the most recognizable of an alphabet-busting succession of storms battering the Americas. Vast stretches of prime ocean property now lie either

Card Sharks And Marks0

• January/February 2006
• January 1, 2006

84033561 United States Constitution Fantasy Fight: O'Reilly v. Tyson. If your favorite political color is blue, fantasize flipping Bill O'Reilly into a boxing ring with Mike Tyson. If your political preference runs to red, drop Dan Rather into the ring with Mike. Whatever your political orientation, you can be pretty sure Mike is going to