First Amendment
The following article is from the editors of The Stream and was originally published as an installment in a series known as “Foundations,” which examines the most important fundamental issues facing America from a traditional Christian perspective. It is reprinted here on HillFaith by permission. Evangelicals and Catholics have a reputation. We’re opposed to homosexuality, and gay…
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It will be the 220th anniversary come this New Years Day of Thomas Jefferson’s response from the White House to the letter he had received from the Danbury Baptists expressing their concern about the protection of religion liberty in America. Conventional wisdom holds that there are only two possible views about Jefferson’s famous letter and it’s…
Read MoreThere is a growing trend in American society to define the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right to freely exercise one’s religious faith, or lack thereof, as meaning you can think and say whatever you want about such matters insider your church building. But keep it to yourself, keep it private, because “religion has no…
Read More“You may be a CEO who is a Christian, but not a Christian CEO.” These are the words that I believe eventually led to my husband’s departure from his company. He had run a successful tech company for more than a decade, and 2020 was the most profitable year yet. However, identity politics led the…
Read MoreHillFaith is blessed with legions of readers who work on Capitol Hill for individual senators and representatives, as well as for congressional committees and agencies. There are also readers who don’t work on the Hill, but who care a great deal about what happens there. In other words, HillFaith’s readership is nationwide, and even international.…
Read MoreHis name is Doug Wilson and he is the author of the “Blog and Mablog” web site that is occasionally controversial, always insightful, sometimes outrageous, other times wry, and in this particular case, highly relevant. A philosopher of a reformed/evangelical bent who worked with atheist Christopher Hitchens in a televised series of debates on the…
Read MoreDefend religious freedom in the public square these days and odds are you will, sooner than later, be told that protecting religious freedom and freedom of speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is just a mask for encouraging political violence and extremism. A familiar illustration of this fallacy is being told that…
Read MoreBy Sean Feucht, Writing for The Federalist: “Last weekend the world saw a fearless man of God, Pastor Artur Pawlowski, arrested for leading a church service. This faithful pastor, who escaped the iron fist of communist rule in Poland as a child, was handcuffed on the streets of Canada and thrown in jail for refusing…
Read MoreWhen James Madison sat down to write the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, he opened it by noting that Congress “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof …” Madison thereby enshrined in America’s fundamental law the distinction between freedom of religious belief and freedom of religious…
Read MoreAn award-winning Christian and cross-over recording artist performed without a mask at a worship protest earlier this year in the French Quarter, so New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell wants to ban Lauren Daigle from the Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve show. Daigle, who is from Lafayette, Louisiana, performed mask-less during Sean Feucht’s “Let Us…
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