Thursday, July 3, 2025

The Heaven-Rescued Land Celebrates Another Birthday

I’m going to put off doing the annual SCOTUS session wrap up for a few more days to honor our country for the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

It’s nice to have a celebratory holiday in the middle of summer, with fireworks to end a day of sunshine, barbecues, and watermelon. But somewhere in the celebration we ought to take a solemn pause, and think about what it means.

We declared independence—from a tyrannical government. The British later became our friends, but it was a painful breakup there for a while.

We began an experiment in self-governmentstill underway


 
Read the full article on Substack, here.