May/June 2011

A Message of Encouragement 0
- May/June 2011
- May 1, 2011
It is a great honor for me to receive the First Freedom National Award in the city of Richmond. We are just footsteps away from the place where the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom was adopted—a document that went on to become the model of constitutions and statutes all around the world. . . .
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Rendering Unto Caesar 0
- May/June 2011
- May 1, 2011
Cornerstone World Outreach Church in Sious City, Iowa, is a boxy and unimposing structure that looks more like a suburban high school that the focal point for a full-scale revolt against the Internal Revenue Service. Yet thats exactly what's brewing behind the church's door, thanks to Pastor Cary K. Gordon and his war against the
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Tough Love 0
- May/June 2011
- May 1, 2011
This is the third in a series of five articles on the history of Christian persecution up to the end of the seventeenth century. (Editors note: the first and second articles can be found here and here.) This article and the remaining two provide an overview of how the existing consensus about persecution among both
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A Fundamental Principle 0
- May/June 2011
- May 1, 2011
Our Nation was founded on a shared commitment to the values of justice, freedom, and equality. On Religious Freedom Day we commemorate Virginia’s 1786 Statute for Religious Freedom, in which Thomas Jefferson wrote that &”all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion.&” The fundamental principle
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Tough Love 0
- May/June 2011
- September 1, 1999
Today a wide spectrum of Christian activists–from Christian Right to Catholic Left–seeks morality through civil laws. Over the past two decades some of their names have become household words. Their quest is not new: as far back Constantine's Sunday law of A.D. 321 churches have sought to cure the evils of mankind through alliance with
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