Hillsdale College's Imprimis magazine frequently features interesting, inspiring, and intellectually solid articles. I've started a new category for links to some of these articles online, for my records and for anyone else who is interested.
This one is from the December 2024 issue: Religious Liberty and the Genius of the American Founding. There's no pay wall.
Enjoy a very brief introduction to the history of religious liberty and the relationship between sacred and secular authority in the Western World. Here's my favorite line, quoting George Washington:
All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
