Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Define American. Is it any person on planet Earth resides in the U.S. who simply shares a set of ideas – an American Creed? Or, is based on “blood and soil” connections by birth and ancestry? It definitely isn’t the Ethno-nationalism of a “Whites Only” America, because our America became multi-racial in 1619 when English …
What is God?
This single question underpins all things on the Camino de Santiago, a trail inhabited by us full-time pilgrims whose lives are contained in backpacks.
Even in seasons of mental exhaustion and spiritual dryness, God remains faithful, offering rest, grace, and quiet strength to weary hearts.
January 1st, 2000 was a strange day for me. After more than a decade operating the photography studio I had built from scratch, I woke up that day unemployed for the first time in my life. I was doing my best to seek God’s direction for the Christian newspaper He’d called me to start. I had some ideas, and having worked for a weekly County newspaper about 14 years prior, and having seen multiple Christian newspapers from other states, I had some knowledge of how to do it.
The Sevenfold Purpose of God in Human Affliction–Are you in the middle of a painful season, wondering if any good can possibly come from your current struggles?
Every few decades, humanity rediscovers wonder, dusts it off, and calls it progress. This summer, the marketing machine will do its part with The Day of Disclosure, courtesy of Steven Spielberg—and right on cue, we’ll all be invited to stare into the sky and ask if something smarter than us is finally ready to step in and fix the mess. It’s a great story. It’s also not a new one.
Our first day walking the Camino. We leave our inn at Oviedo a little after daybreak. There are no people on the streets. No cars. Only one stray dog, dutifully cleaning his privates, and one old man hosing down a section of street in front of his shop while smoking a cigar the size of …
There’s a comforting lie modern people like to tell themselves: we outgrew the occult. We traded candles and chants for peer review and lab reports. We’re rational now. Enlightened. Too sophisticated for ancient nonsense. Michael S. Heiser spent a good portion of his career politely—and then not so politely—blowing that idea to pieces. Heiser, who …
Our Father, which art in heaven, hi. How are you doing? How’s the family? Have you made any progress on that request I made earlier about Florida Powerball?
Worship is the way that we show reverence, respect, and love for our God. And music is one of the wonderful ways that we can worship!
2:16 p.m.—We step off the plane in Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, and it is pure chaos. People crowd this ginormous public space like ants swarming a fallen Tootsie Pop. This place is like Black Friday at Walmart, only with less exposed thong underwear.
This month marks an important milestone for me, because I’m now starting my 27th year of full time ministry in publishing Wisconsin Christian News. It’s been a long, challenging and narrow road. When I began this work, I was a young man. Now I’m old, and feeling my age, and so, I can’t help but reflect on all these years doing the “toughest job I’ve ever loved.” So, I’d like to share the story with you today, and I hope you’ll find some inspiration from it and praise the Lord along with me for all He’s done.
In Deuteronomy 11:13-21 we learn how God wants us to teach our children, instructing them in the ways of the Lord at all times. God is faithful in return, making it so our physical lives on this earth are sustained. When we eat we will be satisfied.
My packing list for the Camino:
Hiking boots. The route we will be taking to Santiago this year is called the Camino Primitivo. It is the oldest route to Santiago. The first pilgrim to hike this particular route hiked it 1,200 years ago, shortly after the birth of Willie Nelson.
The freedom of the press is enshrined in the very first amendment for a good reason. It wasn’t haphazardly placed there. Our Founders realized that in order to control the urges of the powerful, who run government, to grow even more powerful, a free press was needed to keep tabs on the ruling class.
What first seems like an aggravation can become a reminder that God is often at work through the very things we are tempted to resent.
There are no “God Given Rights” explicitly laid out in the Bible. The concept of a human rights began in 1215 under the Magna Carta. Rights come from the Government, but God issues principals and values. Not rights. Rights: Rights are inherent to individuals by virtue of their humanity. They are typically regarded as fundamental, …
One of the basic, underlying themes of Christianity, across all of the various denominations, is that the Bible is the word of God, given to authors who were divinely inspired by the Lord to bring his word to us mere, fallible mortals. Some Christians — former President Joe Biden, a (supposedly) devout and dedicated Catholic …
In the silent, confusing days after the Crucifixion, the disciples wrestled with grief, fear, and doubt—yet God was already preparing the resurrection they could not yet see.
What does it mean to you to be a Christian? When you hear someone say they’re a “Christian,” what does that actually mean? Does it mean they attend a church on a regular basis? Does it mean they grew up in a Christian family and believe in God? Does it mean they once prayed a “sinner’s prayer” — perhaps as a child at summer camp? I ask these things because when people tell me they’re a “Christian,” I have to wonder, because “being a Christian” doesn’t seem to mean what it used to mean.