728 x 90



  • To Honor and Defend0

    Close to 200 people attended the annual Religious Liberty Awards Banquet sponsored by Liberty magazine and the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA), in cooperation with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. "This dinner had a unique international dimension," said Dr. John Graz, secretary-general of the IRLA. Liberty editor Lincoln Steed noted that "while religious liberty is threatened

    READ MORE
  • Dealing With Babylon0

    In the days of the early church they looked at the government—they looked at the dominant societal system, the dominant political economic system, and had a name for it. They called it Babylon. You say, "Are you suggesting that the United States is Babylon?" I contend that if you read the biblical book of Revelation

    READ MORE
  • Political, not Religious0

    During Jefferson's eight-year term in office, and in the ensuing eight-year tenure of James Madison, religion and the churches managed not only to survive but even to multiply on a grand scale. Neither president worried about the growth of religion, but only about maintaining its freedom. For example, in 1802 Jefferson explained in the draft

    READ MORE
  • A Chaplain to the Senate0

    Editor: Did it ever cross your mind that you might one day be chaplain of the U.S. Senate? Black: I never thought about being the Senate chaplain. One of my favorite Bible verses is Ephesians 3:20, which says that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or imagine according

    READ MORE
  • I Walk the Line0

    William Wilberforce's legacy was possible for two reasons. First, he was a committed Christian. Second, he was also a member of the British Parliament. Because of the first, he had a burning passion against the institution of slavery. Because of the second, he was perfectly placed to do something about it. For seventeen straight years

    READ MORE
  • The Power of the Pulpit0

    In the summer of 1954 Senator Lyndon B. Johnson had a problem: what to do about powerful anti-Communist organizations that threatened his Senate reelection. The answer proved amazingly simple. On July 2, as the Senate considered a bill to revise the tax code, Johnson offered a floor amendment to ban all nonprofit groups from engaging

    READ MORE