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  • The Power to Change0

    The experience of the Religious Right is a cautionary one. Successful in putting together a coalition with enormous electoral clout for over three decades, they were mainly unsuccessful in changing American life. In addition to adopting a hectoring tone that embarrassed many evangelical Christians, they were wrong about what the United States Constitution means in

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  • Public Morality0

    In a pluralistic society a fundamental assumption of public policy is the recognition that everything immoral need not be declared illegal. The public morality that is expressed in law reflects a consensus derived from public debate. . . . Social realities as well as religious principles must be taken into account in judging the wisdom

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  • A Matter of History0

    I am writing this editorial while on vacation in France. More specifically it was written in the guest room of the chateau my wife discovered on the Internet. The pictures posted there did not do it half the justice that reality confers. I am sitting under a high arched ceiling and looking out over computer

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  • Religious Liberty {Redefined}0

    What is liberty? It is freedom from undue restraint; it is the sum of the rights and immunities of all the citizens of an organized civil community, with provision for guaranteed protection against interference with their civil, political, personal, and religious activities. What pictures the word &”liberty&” conjures up! It brings to mind opened prisons,

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  • The Killing Time0

    Sometimes it’s an indignant murmur, sometimes it’s an angry tirade, but lately you hear it louder and louder. &”America is taking God out of everything, and we wonder why our nation is experiencing so many problems,&”1 posted someone identified as &”T&” to the Amboy Times in response to a blurb about the removal of &”In

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  • The American Sentinel and the Crusade to Nationalize Christianity0

    The trouble with the American Sentinel, wrote Rev. W. T. McConnell in 1887, was that it seemed &”determined to oppose the progress of this nation in fulfilling its vocation as an instrument in the divine work of regenerating human society.&”1 The rebuke to Liberty magazine’s predecessor from the Youngstown, Ohio, preacher was on target. Then

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