Good Citizenship

Mixing religion and politics can mean many things. It could mean that one advocates a theocratic state. I certainly do not. Such a merger of religion ...

Emphasis on the Individual

The more seriously one takes religion, the more one should recognize that its claims are directly on the individual conscience, and only indirectly on ...

Lord of Politics

If Jesus is Lord then he must also be Lord of our politics. That's an unarguable Christian truth--that everybody argues about. ... Too many of us ...

Augustine's Barbarians or Ours?

We are at a point in history comparable to the one occupied by Augustine. ... The classical vision had lost its power over people's minds, and society ...

Overcoming Heart Trouble

The unrest in church politics! "The heart is a stubborn and despondent thing." Stubbornness and despondency--these can only be overcome in prayer. ...

Flee "Establishment Fright"

It's not our position that sectarian prayer has a place in public schools, although a high-school course in comparative religions would seem appropriate ...

Failure and Perseverance

When he was seven years old, his family was forced out of their home on a legal technicality, and he had to work to help support them. At age nine, his ...

Political Loyalties Are Secondary

Political loyalties can never be as deep or as broad as the bond that unites believers in Christ.

Christianity During the Revolution

These historical items highlight the ways in which religion and politics were linked at the time of America's founding:

In July 1775, as tensions with ...

A Christmas Revolution

It was on Christmas Eve, after a Romanian church had gathered for candlelight service, that the Communist soldiers came to take the pastor. The people ...