Judge Not0

• September/October 2005
• September 1, 2005

The Reverend Rick Scarborough is a Texas minister with big dreams of the national stage. Welcoming attendees to a recent gathering in Washington, D.C., the stocky ex-college football player said bluntly, "This is perhaps the most important conference in the city of Washington this year." The topic of this momentous occasion wasn't terrorism, the economy,

Holy Men0

• September/October 2005
• September 1, 2005

As we have been told innumerable times since September 11, 2001, "We are at war." If you read most any newspaper most any day you will read tales of horror and carnage and see gratuitous photos of the dead and dying—mostly Iraqis. For a number of reasons, probably well thought out, we don't see many

Incorporation and Religious Freedom0

• September/October 2005
• September 1, 2005

We're certain we have rights that government must respect: the freedom to say what we want and believe what we wish; to go where we please and keep the company we choose; the right to marry our love, to have children, and to raise them as we see fit. We figure we have a right

Honoring Liberty0

• September/October 2005
• September 1, 2005

Part of the guest group at the 2005 Religious Liberty Awards Banquet in the Russell Senate Caucus Room Religious liberty is one of the most important issues on the world's agenda today," said United States senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York. She made the case for both freedom of religion and the right

Humility and Freedom0

• September/October 2005
• September 1, 2005

Since the evening of September 11, 2001, when George W. Bush quoted Psalm 23 and declared the day's events to be the opening salvo of a cosmic struggle of good versus evil, there has been a heated public debate about his openly religious language. Standard and appropriate, or unusual and dangerous? The latter, say more

Foreclosed And Forbidden0

• September/October 2005
• September 1, 2005