Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
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.
‘Outnumbered’ panelists discuss the growing backlash facing the MLB after warning San Francisco Giants players against writing Bible verses on their hats during a Pride Night promotion.
I will admit that it’s truly baffling to me that the northeast, the most politically liberal area of our country, is also our most heavily Catholic region, yet our good friends on the left love to spend their time bashing Catholics. It kind of makes me wonder just how actually Catholic they are. Our 46th …
This lesson is not written to tell anyone how to vote.
It is written to remind Christians that our first loyalty is not to a political party, a social movement, a news network, a favorite politician, or a cultural tribe.
Our prayers and petitions do not have to be pretty when we are speaking with God. Our lives do not have to be polished and mess-free before we open our door to His Spirit and choose to abide in His presence. Watch today’s video and remember that God offers us a relationship with Him that is made of honesty, hope, and a whole lot of love.
What if the greatest danger to society is not socialism, capitalism, communism, or any other economic system—but the belief that economics itself can save us? Throughout history, nations have repeatedly elevated markets, production, growth, and consumption to near-sacred status. The result is often the same: human beings become numbers, workers, consumers, taxpayers, or demographic categories rather than individuals with inherent dignity. This article explores the common flaw shared by many competing ideologies—the tendency to place the economy at the center of human existence—and asks a simple question: when the economy becomes god, what happens to the people it was supposed to serve?
There is a strange and dangerous sickness growing in parts of the modern church. It wears religious language. It quotes Scripture selectively. It claims to speak for justice, compassion, prophecy, or “the oppressed.” But beneath the robe is an old hatred with a new mask.
It is Christian anti-Semitism.
SPLC Interim CEO Bryan Fair refuses to say if he regrets having Charlie Kirk on the group’s hate list.
One of the hardest things about discussing January 6th is that many Americans no longer seem interested in finding the truth. Too often, we are more interested in defending our tribe.
I’ve been to quite a few Donald Trump rallies as he’s campaigned for president. Every one was huge, with tens of thousands of people in attendance. In every case, there were lines of people so long, that the venues couldn’t hold all those that wanted to be there. The rallies were enormous because the majority of Americans are desperate for some good news, an optimistic message, a little hope for a return to the good, old fashioned American dream. And “Make America Great Again,” with an emphasis on rebuilding the foundations of our country’s glory days, resonated with so many.
This lesson is not written to tell anyone how to vote.
It is written to remind Christians that our first loyalty is not to a political party, a social movement, a news network, a favorite politician, or a cultural tribe.
Architecture of a Godly Marriage–Will your marriage be a source of incredible joy, or a source of intolerable pain? In this eye-opening session of Dr. John Barnett’s Proverbs masterclass, we explore God’s unvarnished truth about the reality of marriage. God promises that if we follow His design, marriage is a profound blessing—but if we ignore His wisdom, we can easily destroy the joy in our homes.
One of the most dangerous things happening in America today is that political disagreement is no longer being treated as disagreement.
In the 1960s, I was the boy who was embarrassed about growing up without a father in small-town Mt Sterling, Kentucky. Divorce was far less common at the time, and all of the kids I knew in Mt Sterling Elementary School had fathers, or at least the ones about whom I knew anything about their …
