At Breakpoint.org, Colson Center for Christian Worldview President John Stonestreet tells host Maria Baer why he signed the Philadelphia Statement, and why Christian leaders should follow suit and join the statement.
“I signed the Philadelphia Statement because I believe every person is created in the image of God, and to deny anyone’s freedom of expression is to deny their worth,” Stonestreet said. “Stewarding this very good freedom is, in my view, a way to love my neighbor.”
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Can the freedom of speech that Frederick Douglass held so dear make a comeback? That’s the question asked by Jay Hobbs of Alliance Defending Freedom in a Wednesday column at Ricochet.com. Quoted in the Philadelphia Statement, Douglass believed free speech to be at the heart of liberty itself.
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Chris Stigall talks with Pete Peterson, dean of the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, about The Philadelphia Statement. Our public discourse is being undermined by cancel culture and ideological blacklisting – it’s time to bring that to an end.
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Writing at the Daily Wire on Tuesday, ADF Senior Counsel Jeremy Tedesco called attention to the Philadelphia Statement as a much-needed first step to reversing cancel culture. “[I]f we want to protect free speech — and indeed, freedom itself — for our children, we’ll need to do more than sign our names to statements,” Tedesco wrote. “We must live out those statements’ principles in our daily lives, especially when we encounter someone with whom we disagree.”
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Colson Center for Christian Worldview President John Stonestreet describes how last week he was included among the original signatories of The Philadelphia Statement, an essential appeal at an important moment in our cultural history. Acknowledging the current crisis overwhelming speech rights, the Philadelphia Statement calls for it to be protected, as an essential condition for the survival and flourishing of self-governing people.
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Editor at The Fix Jennifer Kabbany reports today how nearly four dozen prominent scholars and faith leaders have signed the Philadelphia Statement, an 851-word essay that defends the right to and need for free speech and civil discourse amid a country entrenched in what signers describe as social media mobs, cancel culture and campus speech policing.
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In his Friday appearance on “The World And Everything In It,” Colson Center for Christian Worldview President John Stonestreet discussed the unique ways in which free speech is under assault in today’s culture, as well as how the Philadelphia Statement addresses those concerns.
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Writing at the Christian Post, reporter Michael Gryboski outlines how a group of scholars and faith leaders, including prominent Southern Baptists including Albert Mohler and Russell Moore, have signed a statement supporting discourse and opposing "cancel culture." Known as the Philadelphia Statement and made public Tuesday, dozens of individuals have signed the statement supporting discourse and opposing "cancel culture."
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Writing at Forbes on Thursday, American Council of Trustees and Alumni President Michael B. Poliakoff highlighted a federal bill meant to shore up free speech protections on America’s college campuses. A Philadelphia Statement signatory, Poliakoff writes that while federal action could result in some positive changes, the real need is for an internalization of “the value of debate, discussion, and respectful disagreement.”
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As an initial Philadelphia Statement signatory, R Street Institute President Eli Lehrer shared the Statement in full at his organization’s website.
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