The macabre celebration of the 100th anniversary of Planned Parenthood and the specter of what such eugenicists have planned for the world in the next 100 years got me thinking about what it means to take a 100 year view. One hundred years ago, Margaret Sanger envisioned society free of the people she considered a […]
Chibok girls: Freed students reunite with families in Nigeria– BBC In April of 2014, 276 Christian young female students were kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram. This past week, 40 more girls were returned to their parents in exchange for the release of several Boko Haram militants, but 197 are still missing. From […]
In government of, by and for the people, we ultimately get the political process we deserve. Things that have been revealed about our candidates during this election cycle are not OK— revealing then, neither are we. When it comes to sexual assault, there is more coming to light than just Trump’s disgusting remarks. Since Friday […]
When the 10 year old in the backseat said he wanted to be a square-quote for Halloween I offered a correction, “you mean scarecrow.” “Are you sure? The thing that scares the birds away in the garden.” “Yes,” I assured, “that’s a scarecrow.” “Then what’s a scare-quote?” he asked. Good question. You may not […]
Evangelical Leader Wayne Grudem Pulls Endorsement of Donald Trump– Wall Street Journal After a 2005 recording of Donald Trump engaging in vulgar talk about groping women, many who had supported or even endorsed the GOP nominee have publicly denounced him. Notably, Wayne Grudem, who previously wrote at length why Trump was the morally better choice […]
When religious liberty advocates raised concern how the new rights to sexual expression reduce the First Amendment right of freedom of religion to “freedom of worship,” many civil rights advocates argued we were overreacting. But now that the First Amendment guarantees of speech and press are under the withering reductive forces of Planned Parenthood and […]
The New York Times recently published a story entitled, “Torn over Donald Trump and Cut Off by Culture Wars, Evangelicals Despair.” We all need to read the article because the word “Evangelicals” and the word “Despair” should never appear together. An image of despair is not the public witness Christians should ever have in the […]
Supreme Court Begins New Term Marked by Uncertainty– NBCNews The U.S. Supreme Court begins its fall term with only eight justices. The last term ended with four ties on high-profile cases, so now the Supreme Court is largely deferring hearing controversial cases on immigration and other issues until the ninth seat can be filled. The […]
Last week, Israel’s last living “Founding Father,” Shimon Peres, died. His death reintroduces into our American newscycle the very recent history of the nation of Israel and current realities facing the Jewish people in the Middle East. As believers and students of the Bible, we should be educated on what is happening in Israel and […]
By Alan Cross Upon hearing the news that America had reached its goal of welcoming its 10,000th Syrian refugee last last month, I reflected back on an experience I had this past Spring. I stepped up to the window to order a coffee and Ahmed came and took my order. I was at a small coffee […]