From 1776 to 2025: The Ever-Evolving Promise of Liberty Freedom. The word is practically tattooed onto America’s DNA. It’s in our national anthem, etched into monuments, stitched into flags, and ...

Not long ago, I learned that Obadiah Holmes was my great-grandfather, 11 generations back. Holmes was the founding pastor of Newport Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island, the second Baptist church ...

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A Bible is seen on a chair in the House chamber in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. The Bible will return to the shelves in a northern Utah school district that provoked an outcry after it banned them from ...

America was built on a radical premise: that individual liberty is an unalienable, inherent right worth fighting for in the face of tyranny. Revolutionary at the time of our founding, this idea ...

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. The Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free all enslaved people. Opal Lee's activism was instrumental in making ...

The Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty reflects a big shift in how the federal government thinks about faith and freedom. If its inaugural hearing is any indication, the commission is firmly ...

If you’ve ever been in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, you may have stopped at the Norman Rockwell Museum. The museum includes a gallery space devoted to Rockwell’s depictions of the four ...

People around the world are, by and large, satisfied with the freedom they enjoy in their everyday lives. The exceptions to this trend are Americans—women, in particular. This could be the set-up for ...