By Samuel E. Ericsson, Founder & President
May 2010,
Dear Friend,
Some book titles say it all. The title of J.B. Phillip’s classic, Your God Is Too Small!” sums up the message. You don’t need to read the book. Likewise, Ray Comfort’s Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution spends 221 pages showing that nothing created everything. When I spoke to 400 law students and professors in Sao Paulo, Brazil in March, I offered a $10,000 award to anyone who could prove beyond any doubt that nothing created everything. I’m still waiting for someone to take me up on my offer.
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America by Richard John Neuhaustraces the devastating consequences of secularization on American society where Secularism dominates the public square and people of faith stay out. The secularist wants religion kept private – in the home and under the steeple. And religious people played along. But when you create a societal spiritual vacuum, new values and worldviews will fill the space.
THE OLD CHURCH-STATE DEBATE: When the Ericssons moved to the Washington, DC area in 1980 to plant the flag for Christian Legal Society (CLS) and direct its Center for Law & Religious Freedom, the church-state debate was largely between two camps:
