As His people, we are called to imitate Him. But what does that look like in a culture where anything goes, where the only wrong behavior is judging something to be wrong, where an ethos of live-and-let-live tolerance has been supplanted by an attitude of fall-in-line-or-else conformity?

“I suspect there will be increasing pressure put on chaplains to be less vocal about the Gospel. But the good news is that our chaplains are pressing on. Our chaplains are answering the call to serve and share the Gospel.”

Religious liberty is the proverbial canary in the coal mine of a society’s health. It doesn’t tell us everything about a government or group, but it tells us enough.