America 250 and the Future of American Protestantism
Which way, American man? The question is not rhetorical. At 250, a nation that has made freedom its hallmark must reckon with what freedom actually means, and that question, it…
Which way, American man? The question is not rhetorical. At 250, a nation that has made freedom its hallmark must reckon with what freedom actually means, and that question, it…
Ben R. Crenshaw (Ph.D., Hillsdale College) teaches at the Declaration of Independence Center at the University of Mississippi. His doctoral work focused on eighteenth-century religious history, political theology, and philosophy. His writing has appeared in American Reformer, The American Mind, the Federalist, and the Public Discourse.
From 1685 to 1776 When Thomas Jefferson reflected on the Declaration of Independence fifty years after its composition, he hoped that it would make clear a “palpable truth.” That is,…
Introduction Simeon Howard’s June 7, 1773 sermon to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston, a volunteer colonial militia unit, exhorts Christians to “stand fast” in their liberty, asserting…
Introduction This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a fitting occasion to reflect upon one of the defining features of America: religious liberty. As an American…
Matthew Spalding, The Making of the American Mind: The Story of Our Declaration of Independence, (Encounter Books, 2026). Winner of ISI’s 2026 Conservative Book of the Year Award “When…
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of…
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2026) Several years ago, I attended a conference devoted to the…
100 years ago, Allen Oscar Hansen, a professor at Columbia University’s prestigious Teachers College, published what he called an exposition of sources and a source book entitled Liberalism and American…
doctrina sed vim promovet insitam rectique cultus pectora roborant; utcumque defecere mores, indecorant bene nata culpae. —Horace Carmina 4.4 Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists…
