A growing trend of secularism in the United States has taken on frightening dimensions in the past few years. While there have always been those who opposed the incursion of…
Month: July 2017
Retirement has been quite the experience. Since that occurred in May of last year, we have enjoyed an anniversary celebration (30 years for Jane and me, confounding those who said…
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Donald Trump has become the most hated politician of our times. Even Richard Nixon, at his nadir, did not suffer the insults, vitriolic attacks and unfair treatment that our current…
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“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,…
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Morality, honor, integrity — these words are thrown about by pundits, politicians, preachers and ordinary folk alike. We decry the lack of such in our leaders, political and otherwise. But…
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In 17th Century New England, a young woman, a widow who believes her husband was lost at sea, is publicly humiliated by her townspeople because she had a child out-of-wedlock. …
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With the apparent inability of the Republican members of Senate to agree upon a replacement bill for Obamacare, Democrats are gleefully celebrating. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) insists that now Republicans and…
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Long considered the guardians of the public’s right to know, and with its freedom to do so enshrined in the First Amendment to our Constitution, America’s press has done it…
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“Come now, and let us reason together,” was the invitation of God to His people as quoted in Isaiah 1:18. But no one today seems inclined to accept such an…
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Many liberals in this country, especially those in their twenties and thirties, rest supremely confident in the idea that they firmly understand life, that their carefully learned view of the…
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