Is believing in God a sign of mental illness? Is praying a silly exercise in make-believe – just a big waste of time and a delusional activity? I certainly don’t think so, nor do most Americans. But on Tuesday, panelists on “The View” on ABC TV mocked Vice President Mike Pence for his Christian faith, calling it [ Read More ]
On Wednesday afternoon, a shooter rained gunfire on students at a Florida school. The gunman, Nikolas Cruz, entered the campus armed with an AR-15-style rifle and shot students in the hallways and elsewhere on school grounds. In the face of horrors like this, we want comfort, answers, solutions. We want to be told that this [ Read More ]
Not for nothing, but the latest fruits of the Sexual Revolution are even more bizarre than most of us imagined. We knew things would get a little freaky, but maybe we didn’t know it would involve an upswing in polygamy, amorous activities with plastic women, or cuddling sessions with electric candelabra. But that is the [ Read More ]
During the next few weeks, GOP legislators have a golden opportunity to rise above bipartisan gridlock by passing a bill that secures American borders andcreates an earned pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million “Dreamers” who were brought here illegally as children. President Donald Trump has signaled recently that he wants to accomplish both objectives, and the vast [ Read More ]
NBC commentator Tony Dungy is under fire for commending Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles on his faith and for saying that Foles’ faith was a significant factor in his confidence and performance during the game. Dungy’s remarks were met with a wave of social media outrage. The first response was a critic who tweeted, “unbelievable [ Read More ]
“This is the 21st century and we would all like to think racism is dead in America,” Alveda King wrote recently. “[But in reality], that’s not the case: still there are some racial issues that are out across this nation, and so we have a responsibility as compassionate citizens of America, no matter what our [ Read More ]
In response to recent articles I’ve written in support of unborn babies and in opposition to abortion, one recurrent question has been, “How can you be so certain that an embryo or fetus is a human person with the same type of rights other humans have?” Although some readers are asking for scientific proof, most [ Read More ]
Recently, I composed a brief survey, asking my website readers to tell me what they like and dislike about my articles, and what they’d want to talk about if they had some time to chat with me personally. I gained valuable insights from the survey, one of which is that many of my readers want [ Read More ]
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, everywhere we go, from the sight of inflatable reindeer on the neighbor’s lawn to the thought of Cousin Eddie in a dickey, drinking egg nog and talking politics at Christmas dinner. Every family has a Cousin Eddie and every family’s holiday gathering holds forth the possibility of [ Read More ]
On Tuesday December 12, the good people of Alabama will decide whether to vote for Roy Moore, the Republican candidate who is accused of multiple accounts of inappropriate sexual contact with underage girls. Beside Moore on the ballot is Doug Jones, a pro-abortion candidate who generally supports the policies associated with his party’s secular progressive [ Read More ]