Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America. — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home. — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“Church historians often ask, ‘Is the church a movement or an institution?' . . . I think it is both. . . . I… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“In a sense the rise of Anabaptism was no surprise. Most revolutionary movements produce a wing of radicals who feel called of God to reform the reformation. And that is what Anabaptism was, a voice calling the moderate reformers to strike even more deeply at the foundations of the old order. Like most counterculture movements, the Anabaptists lacked cohesiveness. No… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share
“Reason, said Butler, provides no complete system of knowledge, and in ordinary life it can offer us only probabilities.” — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“If we see some admirable work of human art, we are at once eager to investigate the nature, the manner, the end of its… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs,… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, said Paul, if they really have accepted Christ by faith, they have accepted the way of Christ and the mind of… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
