Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Moral dithering leads to more moral dithering. Evil, however, doesn’t dither. It stridently marches forward. The horrifically sadistic actions by animalistic, islamofascist Hamas demons managed to uncover the dark underbelly of the “tolerant” left around the world.
Although “Piss Christ” never reached the Supreme Court, the controversy helped lead to the 1998 case National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley. The Court ruled that while artists have broad First Amendment rights to create controversial work, they do not have a constitutional right to taxpayer funding. The lasting debate wasn’t whether Serrano could make the photograph—it was whether the public should have to help pay for it.
America did not become irreligious. It simply changed religions. The old civic faith placed God above man and man above government; the new one places the self above reality and bureaucracy above everything else. Scientism supplies the lab coat, wokeism supplies the moral panic, and government arrives as savior, priest, therapist, and parole officer. This is not progress. It is ancient Gnosticism with Wi-Fi.
America at 250
America is the oldest, continuous modern Republic on Earth.
And Uber Super Power America has imperial power and responsibilities without imperial ambitions.
Above all, America is absolutely unique.
‘The Faulkner Focus’ host Harris Faulkner and Larry Kudlow discuss the role faith plays in overcoming life’s challenges on ‘Kudlow.’
There are a lot of topics I could discuss today. I have files filled with articles, research and information that I could expound upon. With a 24/7 news feed, I’m constantly immersed in information from around the world. I draw from many sources, double check the information to verify it, filter it all through the lens of Scripture, ask the Lord to guide me as I sit down to write, and then share my thoughts with you, my readers and radio listeners.
When frustrations, disappointments, and sorrows arise, believers can cultivate the habit of turning first to prayer by intentionally placing reminders of God’s presence before their eyes and choosing, again and again, to cling to Christ.
Some of us are blessed with memories of godly fathers who protected us, guided us, sacrificed for us, and loved us.
Some of us carry pain—because our fathers were absent, distant, harsh, or broken.
Every generation claims it has finally uncovered the “real” Jesus. Strip away two thousand years of Christian teaching, mix in a little philosophy, sprinkle in some secret knowledge, and suddenly Christ becomes something entirely different. The tragedy is that the oldest counterfeit never disappears—it simply changes its vocabulary. The apostles warned that false gospels would come. They weren’t predicting the distant future; they were describing their own day. Two thousand years later, the same deception persists. The names have changed, but the message remains the same: replace the Savior with a teacher, repentance with self-discovery, and grace with the promise that the answer has been inside you all along. Counterfeits don’t succeed because they’re obviously false—they succeed because they look just enough like the truth to deceive those who never compare them to Scripture.
On July 17, 1980, Ronald Reagan accepted the Republican nomination for president. In his acceptance speech, he said, “For those who have abandoned hope, we’ll restore hope and we’ll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!”
Before we got married, my wife and I had to take a mandatory church marriage class. The Baptist church would not marry anyone without this rigorous class because the church ran the real risk that unschooled young couples were engaging in premarital relations, which could lead to dancing.
Few songs capture the heart of America as beautifully as America the Beautiful. Written by Katharine Lee Bates, the hymn is not merely a celebration of the nation’s landscape, heritage, and history—it is a petition that America would be, and remain, a nation marked by virtue, courage, justice, sacrifice, and divine blessing. As we reflect on each stanza, let us turn its words into prayer.
America is entering an uncharted, revolutionary time. We are no longer the America of our founders or even the America that existed twenty years ago.
They were buying candy bars, soda pop, a case of beer, two cartons of cigarettes and multiple kinds of lottery tickets. All non-essential items, but who am I to judge? Still, some of their purchases caught my attention, and since they were taking so long to check out, I had plenty of time to think.
For nearly 1,800 years, Christians did not believe supporting a modern nation-state was a biblical mandate. Then a nineteenth-century theological system changed how millions read prophecy—and eventually how many viewed foreign policy. This is the untold story of John Nelson Darby, dispensationalism, and how a theological innovation became so deeply woven into American Christianity that many now assume it has always been there.
As America approaches its 250th birthday, I find myself asking a question that would have seemed absurd when I was young:
How did so many Americans come to hate their own country?
America at 250 years experienced epochal transitions from a Frontier to Agricultural to Industrial to (first-iteration) Post-Industrial society, from colonies to nation-state to world power and empire to super-power to global uber-super-power, economic crises, wars, and its terrible civil war of national definition in the War Between the States. Concurrently, each century had a paramount issue of national definition.
The Wall Street Journal Expose published July 31, 2025, titled “The Combat Cocktail: How America Overmedicates Veterans” echoes a microcosm of the complete malpractice and coercion to comply with blatant abuses of pharmacotherapy guidelines and to “cause no harm” by VA Psychiatrists told by Veterans and Active Duty Status Armed Forces personnel. FSM began a petition on Memorial Day Weekend prior to the WSJ article. Fallen Soldiers Ministries Petition: https://fallensoldiersministries.com/petition
Every civilization seems to invent a cosmic scorecard. The ancient Egyptians had the 42 Assessors of Ma’at. Modern culture has social media, political tribes, and endless virtue signaling. The question never changes: Have you done enough?
Christianity’s answer is radically different. It doesn’t tell us to try harder, climb higher, or balance the scales. It tells us the scales can never be balanced by human effort alone. Grace—God’s unearned favor—is the answer to a problem humanity has wrestled with for thousands of years. The Gospel is not the story of people reaching up to God, but of God reaching down to people. That’s why Christians call it good news.
