By Hannah Miracle Twelve Years ago, I was the receptionist at a dentist office. This wasn’t your typical office that did cleanings and...

Like many women, as a girl, I grew up playing with Barbies and many other dolls, but never thought deeply about what they symbolized or...

Prof. William Wagner authored a brief on behalf of Right to Life (MI) and the Wagner Faith & Free Center at Spring Arbor University. Debra A. Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, N.Y. (23-74) (2023) We filed the brief filed in support of a Christian citizen challenging a law making it a crime to express a pro-life viewpoint on the topic of abortion while on a public sidewalk in proximity to an abortion clinic. The issue before the Court is: Whether the Court should overrul

2023 Update of Activities Housed on the campus of Spring Arbor University, the Wagner Faith & Freedom Center serves as the nation’s...

After Independence Day, after the firecrackers and barbecues and family memories, take time to celebrate the true spirit of liberty—the one that is grounded in our spiritual freedom—and its Author. There never would have been an American Revolution if there had not first been an American Revival (the Great Awakening). The idea that people could be self-governing, the idea that rights and liberties come from God and not government, the idea that “we the people” play an active

The Michigan legislature is considering a law to ban speech of counselors inconsistent with current ideological sexual orthodoxy. Here is Prof. William Wagner's analysis: The Proposed Law is Unconstitutional Ratified in 1791, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech ....” U.S. Const. amend I. The Supreme

House Bill No. 4474 , transforms Michigan’s Ethnic Intimidation law (MCL 750.147b) into a law designed to criminalize speech. A companion proposal, House Bill No. 4475 adds the crime described in HB 4474 to a list of felony crimes. This legislation poses serious threats to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. As written, it clearly violates the First Amendment protections for Free Speech and Free Exercise of Religious Conscience, and conceivably could result in pro

During the years of 1861-1865, our nation saw a time of division and devastating destruction unlike any time before or since. The...

The Wagner Faith & Freedom Center will serve as a preeminent clearinghouse of faith and freedom resources. As we build this bank of information please use it to equip and engage the culture. Here are some to get you started: Recommended Books David Platt, Counter Culture christianbook.com/counter-culture-david-platt/9781414373294/pd/373294 Erwin Lutzer, No Reason to Hide noreasontohide.com Os Guinness.com osguinness.com/ · The Global Public Square · A Free Peoples

The College of the Ozarks is a private Christian college that operates according to its religious identity and pursuant to sincerely held Christian tenets. This includes its policies impacting housing and other intimate spaces . The President of the United States issued an Executive Order deeming that FHA’s prohibition on sex discrimination included gender identity and sexual orientation. Exec. Order 13988; Pet. App. 3a. Without providing any notice or opportunity to commen

By Prof. William Wagner WFFC Distinguished Chair for Faith & Freedom In the beginning God… – Genesis 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. – John 1:1-5 (NIV) I will put my laws in

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.— Isaiah 41:10 John Winthrop | 1588-1649 Biography Though the Winthrop family was part of the landed gentry of England, they were active in the Protestant Reformation. Thus, John Winthrop was born in 1588 to a tremendous heritage; spiritually, the strong faith of his reformationist grandfather was coupled with the mater

As we head into Good Friday and Resurrection Day, here is a special newsletter from the Wagner Faith & Freedom Center. Go HERE to read.

The proposed repeal of all protection for unborn children by Michigan’s legislature is bad public policy. In moving to completely repeal Michigan’s protections for human life in the womb, legislators do not, as claimed, merely replace Michigan’s law with Roe. By default, their proposed legislation legalizes unrestricted late-term abortion, partial-birth abortion, and infanticide, now possible due to the passage of Prop 2 last November. No state interest greater than the pro

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In this essay the author analyzes what happens when political activists use freedom of religion as a subterfuge to invalidate government...

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all...

The First Amendment Protects Freedom of Expression, Especially Expression of One’s Personal Conscience and Religious Identity By Prof....