Christian Persecution in 2014 was Worst in Modern Era

January 8, 2015   |  

“While the year 2014 will go down in history for having the highest level of global persecution of Christians in the modern era, current conditions suggest the worst is yet to come.” So begins the 2015 Open Doors World Watch List, released on January 7. The annual report is made…
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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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The Fabric of Our Faith

June 12, 2014   |  

A number of years ago I worked in the men’s clothing section of a large department store.   I was not there long but I did learn a few things about the garment business. One key thing I learned was about the quality of various fabrics. Fabrics are the basic textile…
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LDS Now Has 85,000 Missionaries!

April 7, 2014   |  

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/ Mormons) now has more than 85,000 missionaries working in 405 “Missions” around the world. That startling number was announced at the church’s semiannual World Conference earlier this week in Salt Lake City. LDS missionaries are primarily young men who take two…
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Joni’s Hollywood “Not-Friends”

February 3, 2014   |  

  Joni Eareckson-Tada is one of the world’s most admired Christian women. Most of us know her story of how at age seventeen she dived into shallow water and hit a rock that severed her spine. For more than forty-six years now she has demonstrated how God’s grace allowed her …
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A Day We Shouldn’t Forget (But not just for the reason you think)

November 20, 2013   |  

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was late Friday afternoon in Mrs. Farrell’s sixth-grade class at the old Sealey Elementary School on 7th Avenue in Tallahassee. A guy named Joe and I were having fun slicing construction paper with a paper-cutter and looking forward to the weekend …
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A P.C. Pope?

September 21, 2013   |  

Last week the world’s news media had a field day with a recent interview Pope Francis gave to La Civilta Cattolica (The Catholic Civilization) a Rome based Journal for Jesuit priests. In the interview the Pope seemed to be wavering on some ethical concerns that the Roman Catholic Church has…
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Far Eastern Thought and Sacred Ground In Lilburn, Ga.

August 2, 2013   |  

Sacred and holy ground is found in Georgia? It is according the local Atlanta, Ga., channel 11 Alive news team. This morning (Friday, August, 2), 11 Alive broadcast its early morning wakeup show from the town square of the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, a community of about 12,000 residents.  Though…
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