A Different Path to Freedom

If we or the world could be saved through human kindness or clear thinking, Jesus either would have formed a sensitivity group and urged us to share our ...

Faithfulness, not Freedom

One of the deepest sentimentalities of liberalism is the presumption that you can have children without having them suffer for their convictions. People ...

Freedom Is Not Autonomy

I particularly like to warn my American audiences about this. Freedom is not the same thing as autonomy. Freedom does not mean I am a law unto myself. ...

Exhilerating Obedience

Freedom does not mean the absence of constraints or moral absolutes. Suppose a skydiver at 10,000 feet announces to the rest of the group, "I'm ...

The Paradox of Freedom

We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom ... that we are most free when we are bound. ...

Discipline before Freedom

Our habitual misuse of words has led us to imagine that Christian freedom consists in the moment, and we protest against anything that would put fetters ...

Slavery to Sin

Social evils such as slavery are wrong, but a greater problem is captivity and enslavement by Satan and sin.

Freedom from Religion

Edwin Gaustad, professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, asserted in 1985:

Some recent discussion has suggested that the founding ...

Free to Make Music

I have on my table a violin string. It is free. I twist one end of it and it responds. It is free. But it is not free to do what a violin string is supposed ...