Secularists now see themselves as a rival religion, even replacing the family. A local business initiated a campaign to provide diapers free-of-charge to local mothers. Free meals are doled out to children, boy’s club members, and the senior citizens. Food…
Most kids go out into the world armed with fewer arguments than they need to fend off those trying to kill their beliefs. Schools are often full of liberal teachers who smugly mouth alien values, sure that their shallow, unexamined…
If we could go back to the Pilgrims and Founding Fathers to ask if they supported religious freedom, the answer would have been a resounding “yes.” After all, European peoples thought the right to practice their own variety of religion…
The Judeo-Christian world of the Bible is being reinvented by secularists. Instead of going to church or synagogue, liberals hope that education at all levels (K-PhD) will supply the morals and values that organized religion once supplied. …
When WWII broke out, US military intelligence looked for two types of Americans that had intimate knowledge of the topography and language of little-known terrain: plantation owners and Christian missionaries. Many of the former served as “coast watchers” on Pacific…
(Stavekirke in the Black Hills of South Dakota) Easter is most often associated with the deserts and palm trees of the Holy Lands. Fine, but when Christianity spread north, people such as the Vikings needed to make Jesus at home…
Some Protestant congregations prefer to see themselves almost as a local or neighborhood business that is only loosely connected to the rest of Christianity. Some may even have inadvertently aligned themselves with the government’s various policies as a way to…
(church setting in Downton Abbey miniseries) The worldwide popularity of the Downton Abbey miniseries suggests a nostalgic yearning for a social order based upon hierarchy, tradition, and wholesome aristocratic values. Nostalgia, of course, provides glimpses of the best…
We live in a time when absolute values are pooh-poohed away in favor of trendy, moral relativism. Compromise is seen as the ultimate political virtue that fiscal “conservatives” (actually quite liberal) find practical and expedient in everyday politics. …
(Luberon/Provencal region of France where Waldo preached) Successful businessman Peter Waldo lived in the 12th century when Christian militants decided that the “church on Sunday” approach was too routine. A direct-action revival was needed. Catholics were sent off…
