S2E384 - DWDP - Essay.. The Manger and the Republic by Joe Wolverton

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Freedom doesn’t survive on paperwork alone; it lives or dies on the character of a people. We open Galatians 5:1 and read Joe Wolverton’s stirring essay “The Manger and the Republic,” tracing a vivid line from Bethlehem to Philadelphia and asking what happens when a nation keeps the legal forms of liberty while losing the moral foundations that make liberty possible. Across history’s ledger—from Rome’s bread and circuses to modern screens and slogans—we examine how self‑government withers when virtue erodes and why every expansion of vice invites an expansion of st...