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  • Beyond Words0

    {image1} In the aftermath of violence and the flood of anti-Muslim rhetoric that has followed, there have been many wonderful statements of solidarity with religious freedom. Liberals and conservatives, religious and secular—there is an amazing consensus rejecting religious bigotry and hatred. It is not only the atrocity in San Bernardino that is beyond words. It

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  • A Blind Spot0

    In the past a majority of the 60 million Christians in the United States have voted for candidates they believed were morally superior. But how do you determine what makes a morally superior candidate? Is it enough to be against abortion, partial birth abortion, gay marriage, and stem cell research that destroys human embryos, and

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  • Ecological Sin0

    The late years of the nineteenth century and even the early ones of the twentieth were filled with the promise of a better, more hopeful future. “Therefore, gentlemen,” declared Werner von Siemens (founder of the company that still bears his name) in the late nineteenth century, “we will not be shaken in our belief that

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  • One Great Objective0

    Roger Williams, after his banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, had but one great objective to which he devoted the rest of his life, and that was to establish a government in America that might become the model for future generations, and also to create an asylum for the oppressed and persecuted of every religious

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  • True Champion of Religious Freedom0

    When I was informed by family members that Elder John V. Stevens had passed away on Friday evening, November 30, 2015, I sat down, took in a deep breath, and reflected on the many years I had listened to him preach and teach, the many times he had helped and trained me to mediate workplace

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  • No Going Back0

    On July 6, 1415, in Konstanz, Germany, the cathedral was filled to capacity. The air was heavy as Jacob Balardi Arrigoni, bishop of Lodi, preached from the text “that the body of sin be destroyed” (Rom. 6:6). Cardinals, replete with miters, sat in a semicircle around a man in chains, his body emaciated from hunger

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