Tag Archives: William Wilberforce

Trying to Defrock George Washington

Posted on May 19, 2022 by David E Smith

First, they came for the George Washington mural in a school in San Francisco—because our first president had been a slaveowner. Later they came for his name on the same school, and as of last count, the name survived. Then, they came for the statues of the father of our country during the summer of statue-toppling.

Now, the left wants to strip his name from his eponymous university.

Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Constitution, George Washington, George Washington University, Marxist iconoclasts, Nick Nolte, Slavery, Washington Post, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?, William Wilberforce, Winston Churchill | Comments Off

In the Name of God, Amen

Posted on November 26, 2020 by David E Smith

November 11th marked the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact. In the words of History.com, the Mayflower Compact was “the first document to establish self-government in the New World.”

Do you think the Pilgrims knew how significant that moment was? Of course not. Fully appreciating that moment would have been impossible for them because they didn’t know what the future held. How could they have known they were creating the first document of self-government in what would become a centuries-long tradition?

Whether they felt particularly noble or significant as they wrote and signed the Compact, I don’t …

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In Chicago, Schools Re-Write History With “1619” Lies

Posted on February 6, 2020 by David E Smith

In Chicago Public Schools, captive students are being indoctrinated to believe that one of the very first societies in the world to end slavery was actually a monster defined by the evils of slavery — almost as if this monstrous nation had invented it.

Posted in Education | Tagged 1619 Project, Alex Newman, Chicago Public Schools, Declaration of Independence, Fidel Castro, Herbert Matthews, James Madison, Janice Jackson, Mauritania, New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Sarah Jeong, Slavery, Walter Duranty, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

VIDEO: Eric Metaxas on “Freedom in the Balance”

Posted on December 20, 2019 by David E Smith

If you missed the Illinois Family Institute’s annual fall banquet back in 2014, or have a vague remembrance of it, you will want to watch this important keynote speech by bestselling author Eric Metaxas. Combining encouragement and a call to action, Metaxas emphasized that “it is time for us to be all in” when it comes to the political and cultural battle.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, Religious Freedom, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

The Attempt to Tear Down Images of George Washington—a Tale of Two Revolutions

Posted on May 13, 2019 by David E Smith

Could a contrast between the American Revolution and the French Revolution be relevant to today’s conflicts? I think so. The attempt to demote historic icons, like George Washington, is a case in point.George Washington grew up as a gentleman farmer in Virginia and was a fourth generation slave-owner. But by the end of his life, he had decided slavery was immoral and so at his death, he freed his slaves and made provision for them.

Posted in Education | Tagged Cultural Marxism, Declaration of Independence, George Washington High School, George Washington’s Sacred Fire, James Madison, King George III, Notre Dame Cathedral, Peter Lillback, The American Revolution, The French Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny, U.S. Constitution, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

Christians in America, Take Up Your Crosses!

Posted on November 28, 2018 by David E Smith

I recently posted this on my personal Facebook page: How many conservatives say or do anything about their public schools teaching positively about homosexuality or the "trans" ideology in English classes, health classes, or in purported "anti-bullying" activities? How many say or do anything when their local schools allow "trans" identifying students to use the restrooms and locker rooms of opposite-sex students?

Posted in Faith | Tagged Dietrich Bonhoeffer, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

Why Some Conservatives Don’t Like Social Justice

Posted on July 31, 2018 by David E Smith

When you look at the history of Christianity in the West, it is largely defined (despite popular anti-Christian myth to the contrary) by Christians promoting social justice and charity for the poor and underprivileged. No other social group has been responsible for more positive social reform and improvements for the underprivileged, sick and downtrodden than Christians.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Catholic News Service, Jonathan Edwards, Karl Marx, Lawrence W. Reed, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Salvation Army, Social Justice, Social Justice Theology, Social Justice Warriors, Socialism, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

Anger and the Church

Posted on January 3, 2018 by David E Smith

There are some battles in which all Christians and all who are committed to truth are called to engage: all Christians should have opposed slavery; all Christians should have fought for the civil rights of blacks; all Christians are called to oppose abortion; and we are all called to oppose the rancorous, pernicious demands to affirm the pro-homosexuality/pro-“trans” ideologies.

In his book Kingdoms in Conflict, Chuck Colson writes about the failure of the church to oppose the extermination of Jews and the government usurpation of control of the church in Nazi Germany. Immediately following the naming of Hitler as …

Posted in Faith | Tagged Chuck Colson, Conrad Baars, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hitler, Leon Podles, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Niemoller, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

Miley Cyrus and the Moral Gag Reflex

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Jared Heath

Looking at culture, it’s tempting to give up in despair. As the dad of little girls, for example, when I see the relentless objectification of women by celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, I’m tempted to think that any attempt in what William Wilberforce called a “reformation of manners” is futile. It seems that instead, in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, we have to “define deviance down.”

Posted in Pornography | Tagged Daniel Patrick Moynihan, David Cameron, J. Budziszewski, Joan Rivers, Jonah Goldberg, Lee Siegel, Miley Cyrus, Naomi Wolf, Rashida Jones, Sinead O’Connor, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

Extinguish This Bloody Traffic

Posted on January 20, 2014 by David E Smith

“Never, never will we desist till we . . . extinguish every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonor to this country.”

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Pastor John Ensor, President Ronald Reagan, Roe v. Wade, Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, William Wilberforce | Comments Off