Month: March 2018

Trump Can Defund Planned Parenthood

Back home for the weekend, I’m hearing from plenty of Members of Congress. Their constituents weren’t happy with the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill to begin with, but they’re irate that Congress co-signed another massive check to America’s largest abortion…

Religion SHOULD Overlap Politics

Liberals and pietists never tire of faulting us for mixing religion with politics even though their politics is their religion.  And when our country, as a matter of public policy, acts contrary to God’s immutable moral law, then our dear…

Science Confirms Life Begins At Conception

It wasn’t that long ago that Obama’s Justice Department  argued before the Supreme Court that killing a human embryo by preventing it from impanting “in his or her” mother’s uterus was not an abortion, therefore, drugs that kill embryos in this matter are…

Keeping Faith

Is Keeping Faith the Ultimate Empirical Test? In our time, is faith declining because people demand empirical proof? In the first Chapter of her book on the “History of God,” Karen Armstrong asserts that “many of us no longer have…

Truth Is Never Antiquated

Progress is not foreordained. The key is freedom, – freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication. The renowned scientist, scholar, and founding father of Moscow State University, Mikhail Lomonosov, knew that. “It is common knowledge `that the achievements…

A Crime for Crucifixion

What was the ‘crime’ of Jesus that got him crucified? Soon another Holy Week will be upon us, beginning with Palm Sunday and culminating with Easter Sunday. It was “the week that changed the world.” The week began in a…

Forty Days for Life

Earlier this month, my wife and I were introduced to the Forty Days for Life campaign by a friend we first met at First Wesleyan Church in Roanoke, Virginia. Although our two families moved on to other churches and towns,…

Encouraging Immodesty Is Not Empowerment

Days ago our Nashville female mayor resigned in disgrace over involvement in a sexual scandal. Two years of adultery, felony theft and reported provocative images sent via texts brought the liberal, pro-abortion and LGBTQ advocate down. The progressive “almost anything…

Playing God to Justify Murder

A 2012 paper “After Birth Abortion: Why Should The Baby Live?”  by Alberto Gibilini and Francesca Minerva of the University of Melbourne, appeared in the electronic version of the Journal of Medical Ethics, using a pro-abortion argument to support infanticide.”…

Does Holiness Matter Anymore?

Throughout history, Christians have vacillated between two extremes: compromising with the culture or removing themselves from it (isolation). Neither extreme is healthy. But the focus of this article is on “the cares of this world”—being so ingrained in the culture…

Ritual Sacrifice Coming To America

Modern Paganism is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Although they do share similarities, these movements are…