Category Archives: Culture

When Our Faith is on Trial

Trial“These are the times that try men’s souls,” wrote Founding Father Thomas Paine in The American Crisis, as he described the beginning of the American Revolution.

Today in America we face a different kind of trial.  A culture crisis.  A clash of thought.  Of Philosophy. Of basic beliefs. It is a culture war between the Judeo-Christian ethic on which our country was founded, and post-modernism, which rejects Christian values and seeks to eliminate religious thought from the public life. Continue reading

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What’s the State of the Union?

Flag.UnionLast night President Obama delivered the traditional state of the union address.  I am writing this prior to the speech, since I will be in a church service and miss it. Here’s what I’m guessing will be in the speech. Continue reading

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Are Your Relationships Real?

Manti.teoCrazy.  Unbelievable.  Bizarre.  All of these words (and more) describe the incredible situation of Manti Te’o.

The 21-year-old Te’o, a star linebacker for the Notre Dame football team, has been ridiculed, questioned, and doubted for his role in the hoax that led him, the Notre Dame football team and the public to believe that his girl friend died of leukemia.

In the outside chance that you missed this story.  Sometime in 2009 Manti Te’o began an online relationship with a girl he believed was named Lennay Kekua.  Evidently there were facebook messages, texts, emails and phone calls.  But they never met!  Because she was not real!  She didn’t exist! Continue reading

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My Response to President Obama

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(This post has received the most views of any post during 2013 and 2012)

Monday was a historical day.  On MLK day our first black President was sworn into office for a second term.  But there was something else.  For the first time in an Inaugural speech, a President used the word “gay” to address sexual orientation and promote same-sex marriage.

President Obama  also invoked “Stonewall” a gay bar in Greenwich, where in 1969 a police raid sparked riots.  He placed it the same category as 1848 Women’s right convention in Seneca Falls, and the 1965 civil rights March in Selma, Alabama.

And what is my response?  Continue reading

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It’s a Child. Not a Choice.

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“I don’t think there is a good reason for an abortion….“It’s not your body, it’s not your choice, because you got that from God.  He gave it to you.”

Guess who said that?

Not the Pope. Not a preacher.  Not a politician.  It was Norma McCorvey.  Don’t know her?  She was a Texas woman who at age 21 was pregnant for the third time.  She worked at a low paying job.  And Norma didn’t need another child. Continue reading

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What’s Truth About This Generation?

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Are young  adults today the new “Greatest Generation”?  According to a segment I saw the  other day on Fox News some seem to think so!  Continue reading

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The Culture War on Christians

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Culture War.  It’s a term used to describe two conflicting sets of values.  The struggle between conservative, traditional values and more liberal, progressive values.  It’s a clash of beliefs about what is truth.  Especially in areas of religion, morals and Biblical teaching. Continue reading

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Why Did God Allow The Newtown Shooting?

Connecticut School ShootingIn wake of the tragic and senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT there have been more questions than answers  We want to know how this could happen?  What kind of person shoots little children?  What was the shooter, Adam Lanza’s,  motive?  His background?  His mental state?  Why did his mother, Nancy, keep a cache of weapons in the house? And what set Lanza on the tragic path to kill his mother, 20 children, 6 adults and finally himself? Continue reading

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A Once In a Lifetime Day

12.12.12RedToday is a special day for Kiam Moriya.  He’s a Birmingham boy who was born in Bronxville, N.Y, December 12, 2000.  And guess what?  He was born at 12:12 p.m.  So today Kiam will turn 12 on 12-12-12 at 12:12 pm!  Continue reading

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Do You Have to Drink to Be Somebody?

DrinkingA few years ago Toby Keith had a hit song entitled “Let’s Get Drunk and Be Somebody.”  It was a jukebox favorite.  He sang about everyday folks that he called “nobodies” who became “somebody” on the weekend when they got drunk!  Really? Continue reading

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