Fireworks. Baseball games. Picnics. This is what the 4th of July means to most Americans today. But July 4th in 1776 was a very solemn day for the 55 men who affixed their signatures to the Declaration of Independence. For in so doing, they were risking their lives and fortunes to defend the proposition that “all men are created equal, […]
Independence Day
America, the Resilient
Reminiscing seems to go hand in hand with getting older. When I slow down enough to look at life through the eyes of my children, I see a world vastly different from the one in which I grew up. As a product of Generation X, my age group may be the last to remember a childhood without electronic games and […]
Quotes from America’s Founding Fathers
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. -Patrick Henry, The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, […]
The America I Once Knew (and Hope to See Again)
Reminiscing seems to go hand in hand with getting older. When I slow down enough to look at life through the eyes of my children, I see a world vastly different from the one in which I grew up. As a product of Generation X, my age group may be the last to remember a childhood without electronic games and […]
July 4th, Human Dignity and the Catholic Church
Fireworks. Baseball games. Picnics. This is what the 4th of July means to most Americans today. But July 4th in 1776 was a very solemn day for the 55 men who affixed their signatures to the Declaration of Independence. For in so doing, they were risking their lives and fortunes to defend the proposition that “all men are created equal, […]