Tolerance and Liberty: A Call To Action

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing[1].  To wit[2]: When they came for the communists, I did not speak out; As I was not a communist.  When they locked up the social democrats, I did not speak out; I was not a...

WORLDVIEW: A PRIMER

But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.  Joshua 24:15 Here is the thing. Jesus lived and died. He said what He said. “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in...

Happy Birthday Billy Graham

November 7th marks the Reverend Billy Graham’s 95th birthday.  But the day is about much more than Rev. Graham’s birthday, it is also about God’s gift to us – to the world – in the man who is Billy Graham. No one in his lifetime has better exemplified what it means to...

Values Matter. Appearances Not So Much.

It’s about values and beliefs, not appearances or the external optics of race, culture or color.  This concept was brought sharply into focus this week while pondering recent views expressed by Judge Judy and Doctor Ben Carson. On the outside these two nationally...

Freedom On The Wane. Or Why This Stuff Matters

Man is inherently free.  There are few more elemental truths. We were not conceived and born indentured or the property of anyone or any power. We are simply and wonderfully free. That is our natural state. This is true whether you believe that freedom to be a gift...

Speaking Truth To Power

….. who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”  Esther 4:14 The politically curious might wonder whether Dr. Benjamin Carson’s speech at the Annual Prayer Breakfast on February 7th in Washington (watch here:...