When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
The other day, as I passed by the nicely framed pictures of the ten Liberty editors from 1906 to the present, an inner voice suddenly brought me up with a simple, yet profound thought. There really should be eleven! Yes, what about Alonzo T. Jones? A few days earlier I had themed my Liberty welcome
READ MOREWhen thinking about violations of religious liberty, we have a tendency to think big—Muslims in Burma, Christians in Pakistan, and so on. Or we may think historically, with the persecution of Jews. It is too easy to forget the campaign of suppression carried out by the American and Canadian governments against aboriginal religions. Here we
READ MOREIRLA NEWS RELEASE The second IRLA Inter-American Religious Liberty Congress was held in Medellín, Colombia, March 18-19, 2015, in the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel. The theme was: “Church-State Relations, Why Are They Important and How to Improve Them?” A large public rally in the city followed the event and showed broad public and official
READ MOREIt was my first July 4 in the United States. That weekend I attended a church service imbued with thankful sentiments for freedom of religion. Church members from different countries together sang a special “liturgical song.” As we raised our voices to intone “Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this
READ MORERoy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has had run-ins with the federal judiciary before, but never with the Supreme Court of the United States. That changed in February, when the High Court, without explanation, refused to halt the wave of same-sex weddings about to overtake Alabama after a federal judge and
READ MOREI first met Lee as a young lawyer in Washington, D.C. I was the director of the Council on Religious Freedom, which he had helped found and was a board member of. He provided much encouragement and support for a younger lawyer. He was unselfish with his time, and gave me opportunity to assist in
READ MORESome people come into this world with a singleness of purpose that leaves an indelible impression on those who follow after. Lee Boothby was one of those people. In an era when the church he belonged to wasn’t encouraging young people to enter the practice of law, he became a lawyer. At a time when
READ MOREA few days ago I stood next to what looked like a rain-filled basement sunk deep into the green spring grass of a low Texas hilltop, called by some to this day Mount Carmel. It is all that is left today of the Branch Davidian Compound after Federal agents opened a general assault on April 19,
READ MOREIn civilized discourse it is essential that proper distinctions be made. This I find is especially true in discussions regarding freedom, lest, in attempting to explain it to others, we end up with merely explaining it away. Mortimer Adler tells us in his two-volume work, The Idea of Freedom, that there are three basic senses
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