Faith & Freedom Center

10/17/2026

At the Focus on Life 2026 Annual Benefit Dinner, Professor William Wagner emphasized that vulnerable human life requires both moral courage and sacrificial compassion. Wagner, WFFC Distinguished Chair for Faith & Freedom at Spring Arbor University, delivered the keynote “When Healing Becomes Killing: The Sanctity of Human Life, the Conscience of a Nation, and the Future of American Liberty.” Drawing upon Scripture and America’s constitutional foundations, he explained that human dignity is endowed by the Creator, not conferred by government or diminished by illness, disability, or dependence.

“Our worth is not measured by what we can accomplish. It is established by the One who created us,” Wagner said ...

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10/15/2026

Judges ought not make law.

Having exercised federal judicial power firsthand, this experience only strengthened the conviction that judicial power must remain judicial. Judges are not legislators shaping public policy, and they are not executives carrying out the law. Their duty is to “take the law as they receive it,” say what the law is, and resolve the case in front of them “based on what that law actually says, not what they prefer it to mean.” When judges trade the text for their own preferences, whose law are we really living under?

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10/14/2026

Our founders did not write “we hold these opinions.”

They did not call our principles preferences, and they did not claim our rights were negotiated or handed down by government. They wrote, “we hold these truths.” In those four words lies the premise of the great American experiment: “Truth precedes political power, and political power is accountable to truth.” When a culture trades truth for opinion, what is left to hold power accountable?

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10/14/2026

We Hold These Truths

This week, Will breaks down four of the most pivotal words in American history: “we hold these truths.” Far from being an appeal to a better government, Will argues that our framers understood the importance of God’s laws, and took steps to create a government that would serve Him better.

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10/13/2026

William Wagner challenges students not to let their education simply fill their minds with information, but to let Christ transform their character. “The world doesn’t just need more educated people,” he says. “It needs educated men and women who have wisdom, courage, integrity, compassion, and faith.” Knowledge without character falls short of what Christian higher education is meant to produce. Which of those five qualities is God building in you right now?

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10/13/2026

As America commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Honorable William Wagner (Ret.), Distinguished Chair for Faith and Freedom at Spring Arbor University, challenged Americans to reaffirm the enduring truths upon which the nation was founded.

Speaking at the 2026 Day Under the Dome event, held at the Michigan History Museum and Library in Lansing, Wagner delivered an address examining the relationship between truth, human dignity, unalienable rights, and constitutionally limited government.

“Two hundred fifty years ago, Americans stood against the most powerful empire on earth,” Wagner observed. “They did not begin their case with military strength. They did not begin with economic power. They did not even begin with democracy. They began with truth.” ...

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10/12/2026

Last week I returned from the Azores Islands in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean. On this trip, I saw where Christopher Columbus and his crew took shelter from a terrible storm in February of 1493. Amidst songs of praise and ardent prayer they survived the ordeal and went ashore to fulfill a vow of thanksgiving for their survival. Barefoot and dressed only in their shirts, half of Columbus’ men were captured during their pilgrimage to the nearest chapel. After nine tumultuous days, which were nonetheless filled with prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and thanksgiving, Columbus and his crew departed from the islands ...

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10/12/2026

Jesus is not just Lord of Sunday morning.

Christian higher education begins with a fundamentally different proposition. As William Wagner puts it, “Christ is Lord over all of life and therefore all of learning.” That conviction sits at the heart of the Spring Arbor University Concept, which describes the university as a community of learners. It is not a collection of professors dispensing information to students, but a community learning together under the lordship of Christ. What would change in your own learning if Christ truly reigned over all of it?

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10/11/2026

The Apostle Paul never treated the resurrection as a nice idea Christians could believe whether it happened or not.

He said plainly, “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile.” William Wagner calls that a remarkably bold statement, because it places Christianity’s central claim squarely in the realm of objective truth. There is evidence to examine, testimony to consider, and competing explanations to weigh. Serious scholars discuss that evidence, and as Wagner reminds us, Christian faith does not require us to check our brains at the church door.

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