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, […]
Fourth of July
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 […]
Fourth of July will be Different this Year
I am not very proud to admit that over the years I have taken the 4th of July, or should I say the real meaning of this national holiday, for granted over the years. To me, the date has been more about another way and another special day to celebrate summer; my favorite season of the year. When I was […]
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, […]
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, […]
True Freedom
I can say with a fair amount of certainty that my children, now aged 22, 20, and 18, did not see the rules and regulations imposed upon them as they grew up as providing freedom. Like most kids, and even many adults, they saw the restrictions I placed upon them as enslaving them, as preventing them from their true ability […]