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Our Lives or Our Freedoms: The Fear of Tyranny in a Time of Pandemic

April 8th, 2020 | 21 min read

By Brad Littlejohn

There’s a famous scene in the movie, Braveheart, a 1995 film that became something of a classic among embattled Christian conservatives who liked to see our own battle with “Big Government” in the romanticized terms of a Scottish epic. Riding before the Scottish lines before the climactic Battle of Stirling, face streaked with blue war-paint, William Wallace (aka Mel Gibson) declares, “The English may take our lives, but they will never take OUR FREEDOM!”

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Brad Littlejohn

Brad Littlejohn (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is a fellow in the Evangelicals and Civic Life program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and founder and president emeritus of the Davenant Institute. He lives in Landrum, SC with his wife and four children.