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Is Your High School Student Prepared to Take Part in Restoring America’s Biblical Foundations?

  Could your high school student defend the idea that America was founded upon Biblical principles of government? Could your student document these ideas both Biblically and historically? Only as we raise up a generation of young people who are able to restore these Biblical foundations, can we expect to see our nation restored. Restoration […]

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Protect and Preserve Liberty in the Home and Nation

This Fourth of July, make a new commitment to become an Ambassador Christ! Pilgrim Institute offers this special CD, Protect and Preserve Liberty in the Home … Nation for just $7 and FREE SHIPPING until July 7th.  Get your CD HERE.   Description: John Wycliffe said of his new translation into English, “This Bible is […]

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My Characterization of Mary-Elaine Swanson by James B. Rose

Characterizing Mary-Elaine Swanson (1927-2011) And her book, “John Locke – Philosopher of American Liberty” Nordskog Publishing, 2012   By James Rose, President, American Christian History Institute   My characterization of Mary-Elaine                  Quickened by the research and remarkable testimony of Verna M. Hall, American Christian Historian, Mary-Elaine Swanson (nee Adams) devoted her spiritual and […]

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The Modern Secular State: Locke Repudiated

Part Five shows the application of Locke’s governmental philosophy to America’s situation today.  Mrs. Swanson concludes that the United States is now following, at its peril, many of the absolutist political ideas of Rousseau rather than the truly liberating ones of John Locke’s, so important to a free people. “Americans are not being taught the […]

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The French Revolution: Locke Abandoned

The French Revolution: Locke Abandoned Part Four examines Locke’s philosophy in contrast to the French philosophes who dropped his God-given basis and embraced an anti-religious, secular, and absolutist political theory. Mary-Elaine Swanson presents a clear comparison (illustrated in the life of Lafayette who was inspired by Lockean thinking to fight for freedom on two continents), […]

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