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Evangelical Collapse?0
- March/April 2021
- March 1, 2021
The President Trump era was a bountiful period for the political fortunes of Evangelical Christians in America. That is because the forty-fifth president of the United States checked off virtually every box on the Evangelical wish list. Trump gave Evangelicals everything they could have wished for. He relocated the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. He advocated
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The Gathering 0
- March/April 2021
- March 1, 2021
A Book Review Redux Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980, by Rick Perlstein. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020. Alarmed at what they saw as the decay of morality in the nation, religious fundamentalists John Conlon and Bill Bright in 1976 organized a group of activist protestants, the Christian Freedom Foundation. Previously the Southern Baptist Association had
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Tearing Down the Wall 0
- March/April 2021
- March 1, 2021
This article is the first in a series tracing and explaining the battle for church and state in the United States. It highlights, in broad pen strokes, the key events, legal aspects, organizations, and societal movements that demonstrate how drastically the concept of church and state has changed in America within a lifetime. The series
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The Theocratic Theory of Government 0
- March/April 2021
- March 1, 2021
ATHEOCRACY is a form of government in which all the affairs of men, whether temporal or spiritual, civil or religious, are united under the control of God. The government of Israel was a true theocracy. It was really a government of God. When doing their duty, the kings of Israel ruled the people according to
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The Next Target?0
- March/April 2021
- March 1, 2021
Opinion: A Christian minister worries out loud. We live in dangerous times. It is especially dangerous if you happen to be a statue. That is because statues all over America are being torn down. In early 2020 the city of Columbus, Ohio, removed a statue of Christopher Columbus that was located in front of City
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Mandatory Behavior – Rights in a Pandemic 0
- March/April 2021
- March 1, 2021
Government accommodation of religious practices has been an enduring pillar of American liberty. In Hobbie v. Unemployment Appeals Commission of Florida (1987), the U.S. Supreme Court (8-1) said that: “This Court has long recognized that the government may (and sometimes must) accommodate religious practices and that it may do so without violating the establishment clause.”
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