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Venue Hire

Looking for a place to hold your next convention? I know, how about the house of the Lord? Check out this at the website of the Liverpool Cathedral : Venue Hire From classical concerts to sophisticated dinners, Liverpool Cathedral is a venue with a difference. Fanfares, fashion, cocktails . . . . . . . Continue Reading »

The Patriot’s Asterisk

Last week I mentioned the peculiar form that patriotism can take in Germany . We Americans aren’t so different though, for we too have a peculiar relationship to the term “patriot.” In America, to question someone’s patriotism is considered an insult, while to praise their . . . . Continue Reading »

God Bless the USA

So I heard that Lee Greenwood country classic blaring at the Fourth of July parade in Cave Springs, GA. I believe I wrote that parade up last year, so I won’t do it again—except to say it combines genuine patriotism, high technology, solid prosperity, quirky localism, and evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »

More on Christian Legal Society vs. Martinez

The Federalist Society provides a very insightful and useful podcast in which University of Chicago and NYU law professor Richard A. Epstein analyzes the June 28 decision that vindicated the Hastings Law School policy of forcing all groups to accept whomever wishes to participate, a policy that led . . . . Continue Reading »

I’m Off to the Land Down Under

I leave tomorrow for a two week speaking tour of Australia arguing against legalizing assisted suicide and warning about culture of death issues generally.  Right to Life Australia will have the details of where and when I’ll be speaking , but here are the cities and dates of my . . . . Continue Reading »

Civil religion and national holidays

More than two decades ago I walked into the building of a megachurch near Chicago on the Sunday nearest the Independence Day holiday. I sat down prepared to worship the God who revealed himself uniquely in Jesus Christ, but I was disappointed by what I saw when I opened the bulletin. Every . . . . Continue Reading »

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