An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death; If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive…----------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: There was one of two things I had a right to:...
We American Christians will always be tempted to allow our own freedom, liberty, rights, and comfort to dictate how we exercise loving our neighbor. Jesus will keep asking us to allow the love of neighbor to dictate how we exercise our own freedom, liberty, rights,...
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Religious liberty is the nursing mother of all liberty. Without it all other forms of liberty must soon wither and die. The Baptists grasped this conception of liberty in its full-orbed glory, from the very beginning. Their contention has been, is now, and must ever...