“There’s a ladder that reaches up toward God”
Charlie, you see, has suffered enough. He’s gone to the Lord. He deserves his reward.
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Category: Religion
Religious Liberty and the Genius of the American Founding
We are in danger of losing the precious gift of religious liberty, which took almost 2,000 years for the Christian West to put into practice.
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The Most Important Decision in Life
2023 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
The story of Elijah and the priests of Baal is much more than a jingoistic story of “my God is bigger than your god.” It is a rich presentation of the dynamics of true and false worship. The altar erected to Baal stands for all the ways in which we order the infinite longing of our hearts to something less than God. When we do this, the fire never falls, because merely worldly things cannot satisfy our hungry souls.
American Christmas, American New Year
From Dickens to Die Hard, running through and making possible all these charming and uplifting stories that have become part of American Christmas, is the original Christmas story, which most Americans from the earliest days would have read in the King James Version—even as Linus did in the 1965 animated classic A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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Four Pillars: Educating for America
Colleges today are increasingly collections of hostile identity groups, each clamoring against the crimes of the other. Students are not invited to step outside themselves, to step outside their own time, and to look at things as they have been understood by the best over time. If they did that, they would then learn and grow not by invention but by discovery.
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“Faith and reason are mutually reinforcing”
By constructing this Chapel, the College upholds the importance of its Christian roots, even as it respects the rights of each person to worship God according to his own conscience. Our country was founded on the view that a correct understanding of the nature of God and the human person is critical to preserving liberty.
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“Our Greatest Inheritance”—2018 Commencement Address
It seems, at times, that we live in an age when too many disregard the wisdom of the past. But here at Hillsdale you’ve been grounded in the teachings and traditions that are our greatest inheritance as Americans—the same teachings and traditions that are the surest foundation of a boundless American future.
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A Time to Scatter Stones and a Time to Gather Stones Together
The true harvest of all these efforts will be a noble building, a thing of beauty and a joy forever, in which Hillsdalians shall flourish both individually and corporately, and from which the God who’s given us everything in Christ can be given back the best we have to offer, which is all too little, but in which offering we transcend ourselves and therefore most truly find ourselves.
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Freedom and Obligation–2016 Commencement Address
These small lessons become the unplanned syllabus for learning citizenship, and your efforts to live them will help to form the fabric of a civil society and a free and prosperous nation where inherent equality and liberty are inviolable.
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Islam—Facts or Dreams?
In the real world, we must deal with the facts of Islamic supremacism, because its jihadist legions have every intention of dealing with us. But we can only defeat them if we resolve to see them for what they are.
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Property Rights and Religious Liberty
Many Christians, while they cherish religious liberty, seem to believe that property rights, and...
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The Battle of Indiana and the Promise of Battles to Come
While conservative pessimists looked at Indiana, watched its politicians immediately compromise, and saw defeat, a closer look shows something else: a cultural stalemate.
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