Daniel Darling is the director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern and the author of several books, including his forthcoming A Defense of Christian Patriotism from Broadside Books.
Posts by Dan Darling
December 18, 2025
The organization Americans United for Separation of Church and State, founded in 1947, declares that the “U.S. Constitution is a wholly secular document” in making the case that America is and always has been a secular nation.
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July 22, 2025
If armed officers of the state didn’t come to your church gathering this past weekend, demanding that you break up your unofficial and unlicensed religious gathering, you can thank, in large part, America’s largest Protestant tradition: Baptists.
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April 22, 2025
As America nears the 250th birthday of her existence as a republic, there is no shortage of Americans fretting, wondering, and ruminating on not only its future but whether this experiment in ordered liberty is a worthy one.
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January 22, 2025
I was a day shy of my eighth birthday when the reassuring words of President Reagan crackled over my family’s radio. Like all Americans, we were traumatized by the explosion of the space shuttle
Challenger, which carried, among her passengers, 38-year-old social studies teacher Christy McAuliffe.
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