by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 31, 2020 | ANTIFA, Dayenu, Faith tested, Lawlessness, Mass Shootings, Mass Suicide, Offending Words, Persecution, Politics, Sacrifice, Salvation, Social tyranny, Suicide, Thanksgiving, Traditions
Today marks the last day of the year 2020. At midnight, with the tick of the clock, a new calendar year will be ushered in. Will the chaos of this past year continue on into 2021, or will that subside and give way to a more hopeful time? Folks will make New Year’s...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 13, 2020 | Abortion, Adultery, CriticalThinkingNotCriticalTheory, Homosexuality, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Racism, Salvation, Sin, Slavery, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Socialism, White Fragility
Young religious legal experts were always asking Jesus questions, trying to stump or trap him into an answer they could use against him in some way. Kind of like our modern-day press corps, except that these 1st century Jewish young guns were probably better educated....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 9, 2020 | Christmas, Evangelical Left, Forgiveness, Holiness, Hypocrites, Identity Politics, Morality, Redemption, Sin, Social Justice, Social tyranny
At some point in December, the popular film “A Christmas Story” is always aired. Set in 1947 Indiana at Christmastime, we find we can easily identify with that earlier time and culture, as do many people our age. Ralphie was a typical boy with simple dreams, and his...
by Corey Miller | Jul 2, 2020 | ANTIFA, Black Lives are Sacred, CriticalThinkingNotCriticalTheory, Identity Politics, Marxism, NotOversensitiveNorInsensitive, Racism, Reformation, Social Justice, Social tyranny, White Fragility
All. Of. Them. Some reading this will say “amen,” while others will wince. Examine your response. But the recognition that all black lives are sacred should resolve the politicized controversy for Christians over the use of the phrase “black lives...
by Joy A Veinot | May 7, 2020 | Abortion, Apologetics, Global Warming, Globalism, Humanism, Humanist Manifest, Intolerance, MCOI Journal, Morality, Paganism, Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Perennialism, Planetary Humanism, Relativism, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Socialism, Tolerance, Winter 2000
(This originally appeared in the Winter 2000 edition of the MCOI Journal) By Sarah Flashing & Joy A. Veinot Many people faced the new Millennium with a sense of dread and apprehension. What would happen to the world in our new century? War? Famine? Economic...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 31, 2019 | Free Speech, Freedom, Political Correctness, Politics, Social tyranny, Tolerance, Truth
In John 19:38 Pilate responds to Jesus when he quips, “What is truth?” It was more of a commentary on the problem of language in that day than on the claims of Jesus. The very definition of “truth” in Greco-Roman culture was elusive and contradictory. For the common...
