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The Religious Freedom clauses in the Constitution's First Amendment are facing interpretation challenges on numerous fronts. One Generation Away visits the front lines of the changing face of religious liberty in the United States.

"Many Americans are concerned about rising threats to religious freedom. They feel the culture changing around them, and they fear that their beliefs will soon be marginalized as a form of bigotry. Others, younger Christians in particular, are tired of the culture wars, and they wonder whether courtroom battles are truly worthwhile, or even in line with the teachings of Jesus. Luke Goodrich offers a reasoned, balanced, gospel-centered approach to...

Religious liberty is under attack in America. Your freedom to believe may not last much longer. To all those who say they don't care about the culture war, Erick Erickson has only one response: "The Left will not let you stay on the sidelines. You will be made to care." Now the former Editor-in-Chief of RedState.com joins with Christian author Bill Blankschaen to expose the war in America on Christians and all people of faith who refuse to bow to...

"Why not just make the cake? That's a question countless people across the country started asking in 2012, when Jack Phillips told two men who walked into his Masterpiece Cakeshop that he couldn't create a custom cake for their same-sex wedding. And the question only grew more urgent as Phillips had to defend himself first before the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and then numerous courts--losing at every step of the way until the U.S. Supreme Court...

"Bienvenido de nuevo a Hope Springs... donde Grace Wesley enseña historia en la preparatoria. Ella se choca con el distrito escolar después de responder a la pregunta de Brooke Thawley acerca de Jesús durante una discusión académica. De repente, Brooke se convierte en un peón en un épico juicio que podría costarle a Grace la profesión que ama. Tom Endler, un abogado del gremio de maestros, es seleccionado como representante legal de Grace...

After her parents are arrested by Chinese soldiers because of their religious beliefs, twelve-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam travel from their home in Tibet across the Himalayas to India in order to seek the help of the Dalai Lama.

In 1929, the Mexican government declared war on the Catholic Church. Priests were killed and exiled, churches looted and destroyed, and Mexican Catholics were forced to live through unfortunate persecution. But in the darkest moments, the faith of the nation's Catholics was unshakeable. Courageous in the face of harsh persecution, Mexico's faithful, known as Cristeros, refused to cower in the face of intimidation, and took up arms during a three-year...

"Bishop E.W. Jackson's life story unites Americans around a shared legacy of freedom. As a great grandson of slaves, he believes that the promise of liberty has always belonged to all Americans. For some, only their heirs would be the full beneficiaries. Nonetheless, the Declaration of Independence marked the inevitable death of the ancient world as surely as it proclaimed the birth of a new nation. Jackson sees the history of America as the epic...

"This Means War is the urgent call to action by controversial social media firebrand, Pastor Greg Locke. Written to the American Church and Christian conservatives around the globe, the subtitle 'We Will Not Surrender Through Silence' is just one of several revolutionary exhortations Locke presents to a world ripe for revival, and ready for WAR. The book is presented in four parts: Prophecy, Persecution, Preparation, & Proclamation. Endorsed by Charlie...

A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.