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Historical Profile: John Wycliffe – Morning Star of the Reformation (Excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs)
One of my favorite reformers has to be John Wycliffe, who translated the language of the Latin Vulgate into language that everybody could understand. This weekend, as part of our weekend inspirational series, we are pleased to present this excerpt from the classic, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, not because of any connection with a particular […]
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Church and State
Constitution
History
Government, Religion, and a Mythical Past
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Karen Scott
- June 1, 2008
- America
- bill of rights
- Civil Rights
- criminal law
- Due Process Clause
- Establishment Clause
- founders
- historical revisionism
- learning from the past
- national heritage
- polygamy
- religious discrimination
- religious harassment
- Roger Williams
- Separation of Church and State
- Spectrum Magazine
- Ten Commandments
- thought crime
- Tibet
- Walt Pontynen
- War
- workers' rights
- World
By Karen Scott, Walt Pontynen, and Leigh Johnson In this article, originally published in Spectrum in 2002, the authors discuss the intent of the founders of the United States and how historical revisionism obscures our national heritage. (Re-posted with Permission.) AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER and poet George Santayana (1863-1952) wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are […]
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