The picture on the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal, page A13, has a picture of lightning flashing over St. Peter's Basilica from last Monday when Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would step down. The picture is worth 1000 words, or at least Continue Reading
January 20, 2013
Remembering Presidential Inaugural Prayers: Part 1
The inauguration of the new president is a remarkable time. The Constitution of the United States calls for the inaugural vows to be taken by the new president on January 20. It is customary, extending back to George Washington, to call upon a clergyman Continue Reading
December 13, 2012
There’s Green and Then There is…Evergreen: The Secular Environmental Movement and Biblical Care for Creation
The current cultural climate is a veritable greenhouse for growing ever-mutating myths about Christians, particularly evangelicals, and their concern for the earth.[1] The charge that there is a “huge burden of guilt”[2] to be born by evangelical Continue Reading
June 6, 2012
Two Speeches: Remembering D-Day through Eisenhower and Reagan
Today I want to post Eisenhower's letter that was never read and then post another, by Ronald Reagan, that was read, fifty years later. One was given because the other was not. And that is another story of D-Day that bears remembrance. It is a story of Continue Reading
February 11, 2012
When God Comes Down (Isaiah 64)
spodzone /Free Photos“The greatest threat we face as a nation is a unawareness of our own condition. So many in our nation fail to realize that we really are at war.” What a Pentagon official told me could be said about the Church. Many have Continue Reading
February 2, 2012
Insuring Religious Liberty: ObamaCare, Ronald Reagan, and the Current Crisis of Conscience in America
We were told this would not happen. We were told to just let the bill pass and read it later. Well, we are reading it now. And the fine print doesn’t look good for religious freedom. Perhaps you have heard about last Sunday’s “pulpit protest” by Continue Reading
November 28, 2011 2 Comments
Defense Draw-down Talk while the Nation is at War: Irresponsible and Immoral
The failure of the bipartisan super committee to take decisive action to reverse the 15 trillion-dollar debt crisis this country needs from becoming another Greece has, predictably, failed. Now the Washington blame game begins. However, the greatest Continue Reading
July 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
My 2011 Top Twelve Summer Reading List: Part Two of Four
Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, an Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives by Richard A. Swenson, M.D. (NavPress,2004)—As I prepared to read this book, I noticed the warning on the rear cover, “Overload is not having time to finish the Continue Reading
Neil Postman, Irene Dunne and the Right Use of Entertainment
When the late, great Neil Postman (1931-2003) wrote that we were Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) he spoke of a generation that we all know too well. Our money, our priorities, our talk, our time and thus our lives, are consumed with a Hollywood Continue Reading