Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Day 2: Skills and The Code So many myths surround the origins and meanings behind “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” It’s challenging to trace the birth and intended message in any older song, especially one that dates to 1780. You can conduct your own research, but I’m seeing more reference to the carol being French …
What I could use is in this 5th Generation War is 12 psychological gifts from the king of resilience, COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, U.S. Army Green Beret and survivor of five years as a Viet Cong prisoner of war in the swampy U Minh Forest of southernmost Vietnam.
“Dear Sean,” the email began. “I teach vacation Bible school… Last year we had three Latino children whose parents are undocumented immigrants… “Church leadership felt it best not to allow these children to attend VBS this year. It broke my heart, the kids don’t understand, I’m really struggling with this decision. What should I do?” …
I’d like to begin today with a couple of verses of Scripture. From Isaiah 30, “For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord; who say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us …
Pope St. Pius V who served from January 1566 to his death, in May 1572 had it right saying, “All the evil in the world is due to lukewarm Catholics.”
“No God, no religion, can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty nor other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field and live.” Mark Twain The Romans understood this concept two thousand years ago, and used it to forge an empire. The incomparable Roman legions would conquer a region, …
“Cheap grace,” a term coined by theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, describes a superficial form of Christianity that avoids the difficult work of confronting societal wrongs.
I believe America is at a tipping point. Most Americans realize there is something deeply wrong with the nation we live in.
Early exposure to religious narratives, rituals, and values helps create a foundational understanding that influences one’s religious identity and outlook on life.
Given the work that I do, it grieves me to see so many professing Christians who are so ignorant of the days and times we’re living in. Most don’t know and don’t want to know what’s really going on in this world — or how Christ-followers are to respond to it all. Truly, those who …
Genesis 1:27 (NIV)
“So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.”
It’s been over five centuries since Martin Luther, the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation, stirred the theological pot by challenging certain doctrines within the Catholic Church.
In the cacophony of American discourse, few phrases resonate with such charged intensity as “separation of church and state.”
The recent split within the United Methodist Church (UMC) serves as a poignant reminder that divisions within religious congregations can be as spiritual as theological or doctrinal.
The call to submit to governing authorities has been a point of contention and struggle for numerous believers throughout history.
On April 18, 2023, Charles Stanley passed from life here to life in heaven at the age of 90. Dr. Stanley was the greatest Christian teacher of his time.
Since the topic came up, recently, about the Church of England, I feel compelled to add my observations. What has been going on, lately, started before I was born, and it has been causing concern for decades. To try to avoid misunderstandings, the Church of England is a group of many diverse churches under …
“A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” –Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NIV) Editor’s Note: There is an existential conflict underway in the United Methodist Church. On one side are the traditionalists who cannot abide the continued open and notorious disobedience of God’s Word by Bishops, Pastors and other church leadership, to wit, their insistence on …
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,” said Sir Winston Churchill in his speech to the meeting in the House of Lords, October 28, 1943, requesting that the House of Commons bombed out in May 1941 be rebuilt exactly as before.”