Religious Liberty 250

Originally published by The Center for Faith & Culture.

For 250 years, religious liberty has not only been America’s first freedom, but also the freedom that animates our other enumerated freedoms. Yet, on our nation’s birthday, some are questioning if religious liberty is still possible in a morally and ethnically diverse nation. The question on this anniversary is not whether we still have religious liberty—the courts continue to rule in its favor—but whether we should preserve it, and more urgently, whether we have the theological conviction to sustain it. The argument of this article is twofold. First, America must continue to fight for religious liberty in the public square. Second, the church must recover the theological foundation without which that fight cannot be won. The former answers what religious liberty does for a society, the latter establishes why the human conscience is sacred and deserves protection.

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