http://www.mansfieldgroup.com Stephen Mansfield is a New York Times bestselling author and a popular speaker who is becoming one of the nation’s most respected voices on religion and American culture. en-us http://mansfieldgroup.com/images/mansfield_color2.jpg http://www.mansfieldgroup.com When Barack Obama stepped into the presidency and when the conservative movement seemed to collapse and the economy tumbled and the People's Republic of the United States loomed--I found myself in the... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=171 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=171 The good folks at USA Today, executive forum editor John Siniff in particular, allowed me to write an Op/Ed on the business lessons to be learned from Guinness. You can read it here. Enjoy. ... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=164 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=164 Amidst the books and the busts and framed photographs that adorn my leathery office in downtown Nashville, there is a jagged piece of metal that visitors often ask me about. It is unframed and unlabel... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=168 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=168 Today is Winston Churchill's 135th birthday. Every year on this date, I celebrate the life of the "Great Man." People sometimes find my devotion odd but I am mentored and inspired by Sir Winston--an... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=130 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=130 It was the ancient Greeks who urged us to “Above all, know thyself.” Their assumption was that through introspection and courage a man can thoroughly understand who he is and what his life is mean... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=163 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=163 Let me tell you where Barack Obama lost me on health care. You see, he might have won me. I’m a moderate Republican who believes that there is a compelling case to be made for some form of national ... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=156 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=156 On October 7, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case entitled Salazar v. Buono. Most Americans don't pay much attention to court rulings but for people of faith this one is going to have far-reaching... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=158 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=158 So it has hit the news that my friend, Tom DeLay, is going to be on "Dancing with the Stars." Frankly, I'm delighted. He will be criticized and rebuked, chastised and ridiculed, but I think it is good... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=154 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=154 It was love that defined them and we should remember this as we mourn the passing of Paul Harvey and Walter Cronkite in this year. They were not the bombastic, interrupting bullies we know so well fro... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=153 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=153 I am an evangelical and a political conservative, so I say the following with respect: American Evangelicals and political conservatives must respond with more than just anger to the challenges of ... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=150 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=150 I have a great many friends who send me quotes that are meaningful to them, but none has had the impact of a quote I came across recently. I first read it at the end of an email from my friend, F... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=149 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=149 Readers of this blog will know that I work hard to encourage my pro-life friends around the country with the idea that we are winning hearts and minds even as the Obama administration expands abort... http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=147 http://www.mansfieldgroup.com/index.php?article=147