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Winning America’s Heart Back

Winning America’s Heart Back
How often have you looked at someone who passionately disagrees with everything you stand for and thought, “just look at the facts!  You can’t argue with facts, if these people would just look at the truth they would have to change their minds!”?  I’m discovering that with...

Origin of the Unoriginal: Episode I

Origin of the Unoriginal: Episode I
Are you prepared for the drama…the romance…the comedy…of the original science fiction story?  Ironically, it happens to be a true story.  Sit right back and you’ll hear how the unbelievable hypothesis became the darling tale of a once scientific Western Civilization. The origin...

How Then Should We Dress?

How Then Should We Dress?
“Why do you always wear dresses? Don’t you wear pants, ever?” queried my grandmother, affectionately called “LaLa” by all of us grandchildren. My mother’s stepmother always liked nicely styled things, from hair cuts to earrings, so questioning my clothes was something...

Cream Puff Culture

Cream Puff Culture
“One reason why sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.” – Billy Sunday I recall reading that quote in one of my Christian Daily Planner journals when I was about ten years old. It didn’t strike me as being a very profound quote at the time, but it remained...

Adulterous Diplomacy

Adulterous Diplomacy
Within his first few months in office, President Obama has been photographed bowing to a Muslim king and recorded telling the Muslim world that Islam has a “proud tradition of tolerance,” all the while keeping mum about the unprincipled election fiasco that is keeping Ahmadinejad in power over Iran. As...

Order in the Court!

Order in the Court!
The Supreme Court is a somewhat mysterious domain of American Government. The only input that the American people have in selecting their Supreme Court justices is their vote for the President. The importance of that input is evident when you consider that the Supreme Court is the highest court in the...