The Liberty Blog

President Obama continued the tradition set in place by President Eisenhower in 1953 attending the National Prayer Breakfast. There has been some controversy over that practice. The Boston Globe, for instance has called it “Bad Religion.” “[T]he tradition amounts to a religious festival of American Christian nationalism,” writes James Carroll, “...this overtly theological claim on God’s favour goes to the heart of the imperial hubris that has led to one foreign policy more... (3 Comments)

There is nothing like a pro-life message in a TV ad during the Super Bowl to ignite the blogosphere and the editorial pages of the nation. For weeks the “pro-choice” community were proclaiming the unfairness of CBS allowing Focus on the Family air a pro-life ad featuring Tim Tebow. Much ink and cyberspace was taken up in polemics even before the ad was made public – but it was the idea of such more... (5 Comments)