Dear Friend,

Happy 4th of July!

As we celebrate with friends and family, I am moved to think of the brave men and women who have fought to defend the dignity of the human person throughout our country’s history.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote of some of them in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”:

One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

May each of us in our own calling follow in the footsteps King describes, and continue the great work of defending “the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage” as we face pressing new challenges to human dignity and flourishing in our own era.

My colleagues and I at EPPC are grateful to you—our community of supporters, readers, friends, allies—for standing with us in the fight to preserve "those great wells of democracy” that made America prosperous and free.

God bless you, and God bless our country.