July/August 2004

The Power of the Pulpit 0

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

In Search of a Christian Nation 0

In recent years a number of church leaders have been pressing public claims that the United States has been a Christian nation since its beginning. Their argument is that the Founders of the nation were Christians, and that they wrote their Christianity into the Constitution and intended for this to be a Christian nation. Here

Faith And Social Justice 0

Separation of church and state means a lot of things. But it does not mean that the faithful have no voice in the public square. It certainly does not relieve believers from urging government to act with wisdom, justice, and righteousness. And it clearly should not bar personal involvement in matters of law and public

To Honor and Defend 0
- July/August 2004
- July 1, 2004
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
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Dealing With Babylon 0
- July/August 2004
- July 1, 2004
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
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Political, not Religious 0
- July/August 2004
- July 1, 2004
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
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