When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
Like any parent, I want the best for my children. I want to give them every opportunity our society and my means can provide. I want to protect them from harm and insult, which often carries greater harm than a bruising tumble. I want them to have high values and a faith in the transcendent.
READ MOREIllustrations by Scott Roberts During President Reagan's first term the Christian Coalition's predecessor, the Moral Majority, expended great effort to, in effect, amend the First Amendment. With the support of a popular president they almost succeeded. But for the efforts of U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker of Cohile standing for reelection in 1984, courageously led an
READ MOREThe understanding that the freedom of religion clause in the First Amendment was intended to erect "a wall of separation between church and state" is rapidly becoming pass̩ and is already regarded by many with actual hostility. This wall view was espoused in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association in
READ MOREAt first it seems ironic, if not downright ridiculous: a federal lawsuit seeks to block funding of an Iowa prison program that in Texas has resulted in a nearly two-thirds decrease in the recidivism rate of released convicts. The program doesn't use controversial drugs, esoteric psychology, or Clockwork Orange-style machinery to change prisoners' behavior. Instead,
READ MOREIllustrations by Sara Tyson Last July at a gathering organized by the Center for Christian Statesmanship, House majority whip Tom DeLay (now House majority leader) declared, "I know there are some people that are worried about the faith-based initiative that the president supports. And most of the distress is . . . that 'we don't
READ MOREIllustrations by Ralph Butler The United States of America has long been a marvel in the eyes of the world for its successful experiment in religious liberty. The First Amendment has often been copied but seldom implemented as successfully as in this new world. While Americans take pride in our history of preserving such freedoms,
READ MOREThe United States Senate caucus room is the sort of marble-floored, wood-paneled location one associates with events of great moment. Indeed, it was from this room that John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the presidency; it was in this room that the Watergate and Iran-Contra hearings were conducted; and it was here that staffers
READ MOREProtesting the Protesters As a Seventh-day Adventist reader of Liberty I have to say that I respectfully disagree with the logic behind statements in your "War and Peace" issue. You align yourselves with the anti-war protesters and make them out to be the voice of reason amid the angry booming of war drums. You are
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