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Abraham Kuyper once said, “Culture is religion externalized.” The Bible is God’s Word, but Western Civilization has been permeated with Christian influence for nearly 2,000 years, and Biblical allusions and metaphors have become part of our language and our frame of reference. That is, until recently. The “Boomer” generation did not think it necessary to [...]

In his June 4, 2009 speech at Cairo University in Egypt, President Obama stated, “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It [...]

Should judges base their decisions on an impartial evaluation of the law as applied to the facts? Or should they judge based upon the criterion set forth by President Obama — “empathy”? Do men and women, young and old, white and black, rich and poor, have different versions of law, truth, and justice? Even more [...]

In 1993, the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote an essay in which he argued that America had grown accustomed to alarming levels of crime because society was “defining deviancy down.”  By this Moynihan meant that sharp increases in violent crime had the effect of redefining what constitutes “deviant” behavior such that what was [...]

Forthcoming from the University of Missouri Kansas City Law Review is an article co-authored by Professor Craig Stern of Regent University School of Law and yours truly entitled The Coherence of Natural Inalienable Rights.  The article is available for download from the Social Science Research Network website (SSRN).  The article explores the prerequisites for a [...]

My last post reported in general on the arguments recently made before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concerning Michael Newdow’s constitutional challenges to “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and to the national motto “In God We Trust.”  At the end of that post I hinted that the most fascinating argument advanced in that [...]

Here at the Foundation we are often asked about how we are different from other non-profit Christian legal outfits like the ACLJ, the Alliance Defense Fund, Liberty Counsel, the Rutherford Institute, and so on.  It is an important question, one which we answer by explaining that the Foundation makes legal arguments based on the original [...]

A common political tactic is to defend oneself by attacking others.  While this deflection of criticism without truly answering it may be politically expedient, whether it is honest or a proper Christian response is another matter.  For example, a blog post penned by the Alliance Defense Fund’s David French in defense of presidential candidate Mitt [...]

Judge Moore’s latest column uses the occasion of the 96th birthday of the late Ronald Reagan as a jumping off point to discuss what it means to be a true conservative.  Many of the Republican Presidential candidates are claiming to be conservative but some of them miss the mark because they ignore or believe the [...]

This week at the National Press Club a group of scientists and secularists announced the formation of a think tank—the Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy-Transnational—that will promote the advancement of strict separation of church and state and what they call “rationalism” as the basis of public policy.  The organization is the brainchild of [...]