Time is a faithful servant but a fearsome master. Dr. Seuss illustrates this in his delightful book, Oh, The Places You Go. It’s a story about life’s journey, which doesn’t always take you to the places you want to go—like “The Waiting Place,” where people are Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for [...]
What is marriage? This seemingly straightforward question is proving difficult to answer these days. But it’s the question the Supreme Court will have to wrestle with and answer as it considers 1996 The Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as being between one man and one woman, and California’s Proposition 8, which amended the [...]
How important was the Bible in establishing Western Civilization? To some, like Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Bible had little to nothing to do with establishing Western Civilization. In a November 2011 Los Angels Times op-ed, “What’s God Got to Do with It,” Shermer takes Congress to task for passing a resolution [...]
The anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s 100th birth was Sunday, February 6, 2011. With much pomp and celebration, the Reagan Presidential Library put on a patriotic spectacular, with flags and speeches and twenty-one gun salutes and music and a fly over. But the ghost of Reagan has been hovering in the political ether for a few [...]
When Samuel Sherwood stood in the pulpit of a Fairfield, Connecticut church on August 31, 1774, to preach his sermon, “Scriptural Instructions to Civil Rulers, and all Free-born Subjects,” he chose as his text 2 Samuel 23:3. “The God of Israel said, / The Rock of Israel spoke to me, / He who rules over men righteously, [...]
In 1964, Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart was struggling to define obscenity in his concurrent opinion that “obscenity”—with the expect of “hard-core pornography”—was protected by the Free Speech clause of the First Amendment. He wrote, “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that [...]
It’s been said that philosophers talk about subjects they don’t understand but make everyone else believe it’s their fault. This is often the case when it comes to postmodernism, about which much is said but little is understood. However, having some grasp on this philosophical movement is vital if Christians are to understand the times [...]
Whatever happened to virtue? Have you noticed, we don’t talk about virtue nor do we speak of others as virtuous these days? Maybe you’ve not heard the word in so long you’ve forgotten what it means, if you ever knew. Classically, virtue meant “manliness;” it came to mean “moral goodness.” Virtue, today, however, is one [...]
