Early History of a Christian America: Ideas and Ideals Preceding the Declaration of Independence & the Revolt of the Lesser Magistrate

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Christian America: Compromise or Principle Sometimes a generation such as ours cannot understand the principles which motivated an earlier generation. It becomes easy to mistake a principled stand with arrogance. Arrogance is often misunderstood as a refusal to negotiate (“compromise”: give a little, take a little). Actually, the real arrogance is ...

Early History of a Christian America: The Declaration of Independence: Revolt of the Lesser Magistrate

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Part I in a series on the early history of Christian America Legacy of a Christian America: Lexington and the Revolt of the Lesser Magistrate Many Christians are confused by the fact that our forefathers somehow felt “authorized by God” to take up arms and resist oppression. Such action was taken before ...