Christianity Still in Decline Says Pew Poll

November 2, 2019   |  

The latest Pew Research Center’s Survey of Religion in America, an Update on America’s Changing Religious Landscape, was released in October (see it here: https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/ ). The findings, on the surface, are not encouraging for Christians. The results clearly show a continued decline in the percentage of adult Americans…
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What Does a Solar Eclipse Do Besides Obscure the Sun?

August 4, 2017   |  

It was about one o’clock on a cool Saturday afternoon of March 7, 1970. Several teammates and I were standing on the running track in front of Leon High School getting ready to do some extra weekend practice (believe it or not I did the shot-put). The sky was thickly…
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New Poll: Religious Slide Continues in USA

November 4, 2015   |  

The results of a new poll conducted by the highly respected Pew Research Center for Religion and Public Life (PRCRPL) was released on November 3rd. For many years the PRCRPL has followed the trends in various aspects of American society, especially concerning the religious identification, practices, and beliefs…
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Planned Parenthood and “Situation Ethics”

July 30, 2015   |  

 In the 1960s an ordained Episcopal priest and Harvard Divinity School ethics professor named Joseph Fletcher (1905-1991) wrote a best selling book titled Situation Ethics. In his lectures and books, Fletcher (who later admitted he was an atheist) used a number of hypothetical moral dilemmas to advocate his view…
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The Next Moral Domino Down?

April 16, 2015   |  

For the past thirty years or more, secularists and moral relativists, including many who claim to be Christian, have cunningly manipulated the media to convince the masses that fornication, homosexuality, transvestism, gay marriage, sadomasochism, and other practices that in past generations were regarded as wrong (or at least…
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Christian Stewardship Matters!

March 13, 2015   |  

Recently I read where a prominent and popular televangelist is asking 200,000 of his television viewers (I call them “his fans”) to donate at least $300 each for a special fundraising campaign. And what might that campaign be for? So his organization can purchase a new luxury airplane for his…
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Take Your Youth Group to See “The Giver!”

August 18, 2014   |  

  What would it be like to live in a world where people were assigned their careers by an all-powerful state? Who would want to live in a place where emotions, sensations, and pain were neutralized by a daily dose of a drug?  Would you want a world without war…
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Hiroshima, Gaza, and the Price of Peace

August 4, 2014   |  

Sixty-nine years ago this week the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing thousands of civilians. President Harry Truman’s decision to use the ultimate weapon was praised by many, especially American soldiers in the Pacific. As one tearful Marine put it, “I…
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