Christian Commentary on Faith, Family & Freedom

Americans have more opportunities than ever to express opinions about their country. We watch, post, share, argue, criticize, and react. But having an opinion about the republic is not the same thing as taking responsibility for it. The Founding generation understood that republican government required something from the people themselves. John Adams insisted that public virtue depended upon private virtue, while George Washington described the American experiment in republi

America speaks constantly of freedom while becoming increasingly enslaved to appetite, anger, screens, consumption, and desire. Scripture and America's Founders understood something we are in danger of forgetting: liberty cannot survive without self-government. Chapter 28 of The Founders’ Quill asks a deeply personal question—what has mastered us? The recovery of ordered liberty may begin much closer to home than Washington.

A republic is not kept first in the halls of Congress. It is kept at the dinner table, beside the child’s bed, in the church pew, in the classroom, and around the family Bible. Chapter 22 of The Founders’ Quill reminds us that liberty cannot survive on information alone. The next generation must be formed in truth, virtue, faith, memory, and responsibility if America is to keep the freedom it has inherited.