Civil and Religious Rights

This issue of liberty deals with the great heritage of civil and religious freedom. It didn’t come easy—it was a “battle.” 

The Mighty Walk

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

In the Lions’ Den

However much, and often, it seems that darkness is winning, and that people of faith are persecuted, harassed, even killed, the book of Daniel reveals a view of the world and its history that, going beyond the past and the present, points to the future.

Deformations of the Apocalypse

Modern freedoms, be they religious, economic, political, or individual, were elaborated as a retort to the medieval church-state’s authoritarianism; to its passion for unity that had all the intimations of modern totalitarianism.

First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty - The Film

The film represents a masterpiece of the blended, nuanced views on how our country’s constitutional Founders separated the supervisory and regulatory power of the state from the church, and the manipulating and coercive power of the church from the state.

First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty

Review of the book by Randall Balmer (Covenant Communications, 2012)

The Ghost of Elections Past

Is this truly an open-and-shut, blatant case of theological compromise for the sake of political power?

Martin Luther King and Religious Freedom

It is a perfect time for schools to help students connect the dots between Martin Luther King’s fight for civil rights and the freedom of religious expression in America.