From their earliest years Seventh-day Adventists, today a worldwide movement with more than 21 million…

Though not exactly known for this theological acumen, British Marxist Terry Eagleton did hit on something…

On God’s Wrath Being Poured Out on America

The Perils of Anne Hutchinson in the New World

The Dreyfus Affair

If the rights really are rights, aren’t they ours by default?

Religious Freedom Amid the Zombie Apocalypse . . .

What is happening in Israel, and what can we learn from it, if anything?

Medieval scholars had to twist, turn, distort and obfuscate in order to meld Aristotle’s science, philosophy and cosmology with biblical doctrine,

We at times will find ourselves in opposition, or even conflict, with others—regardless of how close they might be.

While Jehovah’s Witnesses do have beliefs that put them decidedly out of the mainstream of Christianity, it’s not their beliefs per se that get them into trouble, but how they put some of them into practice.

What happened in the Armenian Massacre, what are its implications for today, and what lessons can we take from it?

However much one can respect science, and stand in awe of its achievements, scientists can be as bigoted and as prosecutorial as their political counterparts.

Christopher Hitchens and the philosophical struggle of his final days.

Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Defining your terms takes on a special relevance.

If God Himself, even at the cost of the cross, wouldn’t trample on our “religious” freedom, then how dare any human institutions, such as a government?

The Maccabees and the fight for religious liberty.

Pope Francis' plea for Christian unity.

A nation founded by the persecuted has trouble avoiding sins of its own making.

Atheist, Christopher Hitchens was inclined to blame Christianity for most of the world’s problems. Was he right?

Sunday Laws are symptomatic of the bigger question regarding the power of the state to enforce religious dogma.

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.

What is, or is not a bona fide religious liberty question?

If you thought that Sunday “blue” laws were relics of the past, something that belongs in…

According to a recent Supreme Court ruling (Albert Snyder vs. Westboro Baptist Church), the free speech…

I once found myself seated at a table in Washington, D.C., with representatives of many political and…

It wasn’t supposed to work like this.An atheist organization filed a lawsuit earlier in the year…

Picture this dystopia: in the name of rationality, reason, and science—religion is severely pro-scribed.…

Funny that I read The Myth of a Christian Nation the week Jerry Falwell died, because Falwell, in his…

By now the summer of 2006 has faded into memory, and what a summer it was! First, there was the Israel-Hezbollah…

It has been one of the stranger political alliances in American history: the conservative evangelicals…

One of the most famous scenes in American cinematic history unfurls near the end of Casablanca, when…

In 2003 the soon-to-be-terminated governor of California, Gray Davis, was warned by his local bishop…

Some monuments, however, are not facades of freedom, but the face of it; not distortions of ideals, but…

"Christians are experiencing an unprecedented level of persecution around the world," said a sermon posted…

Man "is born without his own consent; his organization does in nowise depend upon himself; his ideas…

"The structure of nature may eventually be such that our processes of thought do not correspond to it…

In the century before Thomas Jefferson's birth, radical Baptist Roger Williams-responding to those who…

In a 1991 recruitment video, America at a Crossroads, Pat Robertson, founder and chairman of the Christian…

"Truth is what the majority thinks it is at any given moment precisely because the majority is permitted…

In a 1991 recruitment video, America at a Crossroads, Pat Robertson, founder and chairman of the Christian…

Though U.S. Supreme Court briefs are rarely noted for prosody or style (who confuses Macbeth with McCollum…