Salvation by Nagging

A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life · Apr 27, 2026 · 3m

My barber told me of his first trip back to Italy after becoming an American citizen: when a state official tried to order him around as though he were still a local boy, he told the man off and declared that neither he, nor Mussolini, nor the king himself could command him at which point the official realized he was dealing with a free American, not a subject. Today, it is harder to enjoy that kind of freedom, not because men are silent, but because we have substituted talk for righteousness. Books, sermons, committees, speeches, and endless warnings fill libraries, yet accomplish little…