The celebration of America’s semiquincentennial—yes that’s the Latin for 250th anniversary—is now in the history books. In terms of optics, it was a grand affair, with epic fireworks displays just about everywhere, tall ships in New York Ci…
As Americans celebrate yet another Independence Day, we must consider again what makes America possible, and what makes America great. Russell Kirk, one of the most insightful interpreters of American peril and promise, once observed that o…
Any way you look at it, England’s King Henry VIII was one of the pivotal figures in the emergence of Europe as we now know it. A larger-than-life figure—meant in virtually every way imaginable—Henry was an energetic monarch. Just consider h…
If you kill a language, you kill an entire universe of meaning. C. S. Lewis famously decried what he called “verbicide” or “the murder of a word.” As you might expect, Lewis saw this as a great crime. We can only imagine what he would think…
R. Albert Mohler The United States Supreme Court Washington, D.C. I’m standing here in front of the majestic home of the Supreme Court of the United States. The building is intended to evoke constitution, law, authority, gravitas, and it do…
When the American experiment and the American experience began, there was no question that the basic worldview behind everything was the biblical worldview of Christianity. That worldview and that worldview alone explained how the cosmos ca…
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Library of Congress Washington, D.C., I’m standing here in front of the Thomas Jefferson building of the Library of Congress. It’s an iconic place for book lovers for sure, and for Americans to understand that the Uni…
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Jefferson Memorial Washington, D.C., When we talk about Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, we understand the absolutely crucial role he filled at so many points in our revolutionary history. N…
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., WWII Memorial Washington, D.C., I’m standing in Washington DC at the memorial that commemorates World War II. And we’re at an interesting point in history because that war ended in 1945. And so we’re talking about a g…
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., The United States Capitol Washington, D.C., Is America a Christian nation? Well, let’s look at it this way. It was a Christian civilization that gave birth to the very ideas that shape the American experiment and that…
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Washington Monument Washington, D.C., One of the most interesting question for Christians, American Christians in particular is whether the American Revolution was justified. There are very clear exhortations in scrip…
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., The Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C., When you’re a society of laws, then those laws are the means whereby you adjudicate, you work through the most difficult issues in a society. That means that ul…