In 1811, a New York man went to prison for insulting Jesus Christ, and the state's chief justice declared that Americans "profess the general doctrines of Christianity." That wasn't a fringe ruling. It was the law, and it stayed that way in various states for more than a century.
Pastor Livingston recently argued that America cannot rightly be called a Christian nation because of its many sins.
Neutrality is impossible. The public square is always governed by someone’s vision of justice.
The question is not whether faith will influence law and culture. The question is whose faith.
They were aggressively secular regimes—Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia, and others that treated human beings as expendable raw material in service of an ideological vision.
On the cusp of America’s 250th birthday, national leaders from every sphere of society will be reading the entire Bible, from cover to cover.
Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy — an 83-year-old Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist — died in pre-trial custody in Mumbai, India.
That is when decline begins: not when the Church is attacked, but when it becomes comfortable.
In an age marked by skepticism, apathy, and radical individualism, how can discipleship form whole, mature believers?
Quebec City officials have voted to remove a crucifix displayed in the city’s council chamber. The decision follows a recommendation to preserve the item in a heritage collection while reinforcing the principle of state “secularism.”
