WWJD?0

• November/December 2005
• November 1, 2005

I know that many Christians were startled recently to hear televangelist Pat Robertson call for the elimination/assassination of President Chavez of Venezuela. Astute political observers know that such an idea is not exactly off the table: indeed; it was a failed U.S.-backed coup against Chavez that fed his paranoia. But official U.S. policy forbids such

The Meaning of America0

• November/December 2005
• November 1, 2005

A famous historian once said that if Washington had been resurrected in Lincoln's time, he would not have found it very different from his own day. Clothing styles might have changed a little; some of the laws and customs might be new, but in the main, there would be no real divergence of culture and

The Flushing Remonstrance0

• November/December 2005
• November 1, 2005

The steel-and-glass skyline of Manhattan still soars toward the heavens with the confidence of a people born free. But the cradle of this freedom is not found in the luxury of Wall Street or the neon sparkle of Times Square. Instead, it rests in a simple farmhouse located near the No. 7 train. A short

Save Our Constitution0

• November/December 2005
• November 1, 2005

Since the presidential election of 2000 there have been many more controversial issues and cases around the country that have, in one way or another, involved either the Supreme Court or the Constitution of the United States. The unfortunate fact of the matter is, however, that many people in our country do not really know

Pure Religion0

• November/December 2005
• November 1, 2005

Good And Bad0

• November/December 2005
• November 1, 2005

First Amendment Quixotic or Practical?0

• November/December 2005
• November 1, 2005

Take a cursory walk through any bookstore today and you can't help noticing the antithetical positions that the Bill of Rights was either a concoction of missionaries posing as politicians or that it was the development of rationalists seeking to eliminate religion from public life altogether. Was the Bill of Rights, specifically the First Amendment,