Why Free Speech Matters for Everyone
The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass once observed, “Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions cease to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power.” Free speech has the power to reveal the truth,…
Can Objective Morality Exist Without God?
Can objective morality exist without God? Morality includes what you ought to do. But if there is no God, then there is no “ought” to do anything. If evolutionary accounts of morality are true, you don’t have objective morality that’s true for all people at all times and in all places. All you have are…
Growing Leaders. In Community.
At Gap Year, we pride ourselves on growing leaders, and we always seem to start with a great foundation. Each year, we are blessed with a great group of students who were –more often than not—the best and the brightest in their high schools, and they come to us eager to learn and grow as…
