Like most Christian mothers, Cathy was concerned about her children as they entered their teen years. She had participated in a dynamic church youth program that had been instrumental in shaping her Christian identity. She wanted something like that for her two children – Jim and Ann. But the church the family attended was a […]
By 1961 the nation had been in the troughs of the civil rights struggle for six years. In truth, the nation had struggled with civil rights since its founding, but the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott started an unprecedented chapter in this on-going struggle. On April 19, 1961, Martin Luther King stood behind the pulpit in […]
One of the major pieces of legislation approved by the Congress of the United States this year was the Farm Bill. Every five years Congress is supposed to reauthorize the Farm Bill, which subsidizes agriculture production in the United States and funds various food assistance programs. The debate over the Farm Bill was acrimonious. The […]
It may not be surprising to learn that non-Christians have a lower view of the clergy than self-identified Christians. What may be surprising is how low an opinion of the clergy both groups hold. According to a study released by Gallup on December 26, 2017, only 25 percent of non-Christians rated the honesty and ethics […]
It is not called a “National Day” but that is what July 4th is for those of us living in the United States of America. It is a day when citizens everywhere celebrate our nation, our freedoms and our ability to worship God according to the dictates of our hearts. July 4th is a national […]
For years some observers have warned that the day is coming when religious groups in the United States will have to silence their voices about certain moral and ethical issues or be “punished” by governmental entities. Most people scoffed at that message, believing religious liberty was so thoroughly ingrained in the nation through the U.S. […]