Christian Commentary on Faith, Family & Freedom

The American experiment in liberty rests upon a demanding principle: freedom must extend beyond those who agree with us. It is relatively easy to defend religious liberty when our own convictions are protected. The greater test comes when someone exercises that same freedom to believe something we consider profoundly mistaken. James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington helped articulate a principle that would become central to America's constitutional tradition: g

Freedom of speech gives Americans extraordinary liberty to express their convictions, challenge leaders, debate public questions, and defend what they believe is true. But possessing the right to speak does not answer a deeper question: What are we doing with that freedom? Scripture calls Christians to something more demanding than either silence or outrage. Paul tells believers to speak “the truth in love,” while James reminds us that the same tongue we use to praise God can

We have more information available to us than any previous generation could have imagined. Yet greater access to information does not automatically produce greater wisdom. A free people must know how to listen, investigate, question, and—perhaps most difficult of all—admit when they are wrong. Scripture understood the problem long before our age of instantaneous information. Proverbs warns that the first person to present a case may seem right until another comes forward and