Different Spokes for Different Folks
(Editor's note: The first Parliament of the World's Religions was held in 1893. The next one was 100 years later in Chicago. We attended to see firsthand what they were proposing. We have attended and reported on others, but as we prepare for this one thirty years...
Human Rights? Only for Some Humans
Editor’s note: This past Sunday (January 22, 2023) was Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. It is recognition that human life is precious and should be protected. However, as we point out in this article which was originally printed in 2012, human rights are only accorded...
The Road Well Traveled
In Ecclesiastes 1:9-11, Solomon wrote: What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no...
When the Abused Become Abusers
No one with a modicum of cultural awareness could have missed the fact that in the past few years a rather intense media spotlight has been shined on all types of abuse-physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, etc. And nothing has served to more clearly train this...
The Art of Manipulation
Why do you believe what you believe? Why do you behave the way you behave? Peer pressure has a dramatic impact on social conformity. Human beings are quite susceptible to “group behavior,” and have an almost overwhelming desire to imitate the group they are a part of...
How to Pray for a President
I think David Platt did just fine when President Trump showed up at McClean Bible Church and sat through the service. Platt brought him on stage and prayed for him. He showed us to the proper way to engage in prayer with our political leaders. I'll get to how not to...