Group’s stance revives debate on atheism as religion By Bob Smietana, USA TODAY NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A growing number of Americans couldn’t care less about God. Allison Shelley, Getty Images A man holds a cross with a clown mask aloft during the National Atheist Organization’s “Reason Rally” in March on the National Mall in Washington, [...]

Column: Southern Baptists cleanse past America remains torn by racial problems — and Sunday morning is still America’s most divided hour — but even the most cynical observer must admit we’re making progress. Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention— founded in 1845 to defend slavery — elected its first black leader, New Orleans pastor Fred [...]

Dr. Thomas S. Kidd, associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University, will present his lecture “Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and the Contest for Religious Liberty in Revolutionary Virginia”- at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, in Paul W. Powell Chapel of George W. Truett Theological Seminary on the Baylor [...]

2/2/2012 Misquotations of famous people have always been with us, but social media websites have created a vast twilight zone of historical misinformation. Take patriot leader Patrick Henry, for example. Of course, one can find legitimate Henry quotations on social media sites, such as “give me liberty or give me death,” the Henry saying that [...]

December 14, 2011 The utter travesty that was the congressional “Super Committee” has led us to even lower depths of skepticism about the government’s ability to control debt and spending. In this new era of malaise, lessons from the time of the Constitution’s adoption — and fears from those days about what the newly-framed government [...]

On November 1, amidst the political wrangling over jobs and deficits, the House of Representatives took thirty-five minutes to debate what may seem like a tangential issue: whether Congress would re-affirm “In God We Trust” as our national motto. The text of the resolution called this “a principle that was venerated by the founders of [...]

Thomas S. Kidd Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots Author Event If you love history or simply enjoy a lively discussion, then join us this evening as we welcome Thomas Kidd, author of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, to our store. Come out and learn more about this fascinating personality from American history. Thursday December 01, [...]

Less than a year to go until the first presidential election in which Tea Party activists, who speak of the ideals of the American Revolution, will play a large role—but what were those ideals? Basic Books has just published Thomas Kidd’s Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, a biography of the man known as “the voice [...]

Welcome to the media archive of the Patrick Henry College Newsmakers Interview Series with Dr. Marvin Olasky. The College’s new journalism professor and holder of the Distinguished Chair of Journalism and Public Policy, Dr. Marvin Olasky will regularly be on campus to conduct week-long series of probing interviews with newsmakers from every sphere. The week of [...]