Article July 4, 2022 ISSUE

A higher sense of freedom

Freedom is inherent in our nature as children of one entirely good, all-powerful God.

Lyle Young

Recently I heard the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian David Hackett Fischer explain that he sees certain countries as each representing an ideal: for instance, New Zealand, a sense of fairness; Canada, diversity; and the United States, freedom.

Centuries before the US was founded, the Apostle Paul thought deeply about the meaning of freedom. We know of Paul’s thoughts and actions from his letters in the Bible’s New Testament as well as from the book of Acts.

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