By: Denis Prager – townhall.com – February 4, 2020 If you want to understand a human being or the human condition, what is the single most important question you should ask? Most religious people would probably ask, “Do you believe in God?” The most important question most secular people, especially progressives, could imagine asking is probably a policy question. Today...

By: Reid Wilson – thehill.com – January 26, 2020 This year’s election is the most important in our lifetime. It is a tired cliché, one parroted by presidents and politicians every two years in hopes of driving their voters to the polls. But clichés become clichés for a reason: They tend to be true. This year, the decisions voters make...

By: Jeremy Dys – dailywire.com – November 8, 2019 When Francis Scott Key emerged from the hold of the HMS Minden the morning after the bombardment of Fort McHenry, he made an appropriate decision that would impact our history down to today. Seeing “Old Glory” wave atop the battle-tested fort moved him to pen what we know today as the...

By: Caleb Parke – foxnews.com – November 7, 2019 An atheist group has complained about new decals on a Florida county’s patrol cars that feature an American flag and the phrase “In God We Trust.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) argues the new “patriotic” decal, suggested by a local military veteran, is “frightening and politically dubious” in a letter to the Brevard County Sheriff’s...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – October 15, 2019 Dear Mr. Brin: Fifty years ago this week, when I was a 21-year-old college senior, I was in the Soviet Union, sent by the government of Israel to smuggle in Jewish religious items and smuggle out names of Jews who wanted to escape the Soviet Union and could then be issued...

Kerby Anderson discusses historians’ perspectives on the rise and fall of nations, concluding with a biblical perspective. He finds civilizations which depart from Christian values are on the road to irrelevance. He considers factors which may lead to the decline of this nation’s position as the only world super-power.  He points out the relationship between moral and spiritual decline and...

By: Mackubin Thomas Owens – providencejournal.com – September 13, 2019 Well, it’s settled. Everything we thought we knew about the American Founding is wrong. The real Founding is not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or even the drafting of the Constitution in 1787. Instead, it is 1619 when the first slaves arrived in the settlement of Jamestown. Thus sayeth the 1619 Project...

By: Joanna Piacenza – morningconsult.com – May 1, 2019 55% of white evangelicals prefer President Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, 16 points lower than the share of Republicans who say the same. 42% of the conservative Christian group said they’ll have less influence in 10 years than they do now, while 23% said they’ll have more. White evangelical Protestants...

By: Chad Day – wsj.com – August 25, 2019 The values that Americans say define the national character are changing, as younger generations rate patriotism, religion and having children as less important to them than did young people two decades ago, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds. The poll is the latest sign of difficulties the 2020 presidential candidates will...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 18, 2019 Supreme Court precedent travels fast. Less than two months ago the Justices ruled 7-2 that a 40-foot stone war memorial, the Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Md., could stay standing on public ground, despite its religious symbolism. Now a federal appeals court has applied that logic to save a 75-year-old county seal....