When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
The twentieth century has traveled under many names: such as the American century, the space age, the century of democracy, of ecumenism, of the United Nations, of human rights. However, as we pass the millennial divide, most of these designations imply largely unfinished agendas. Yes, there have been significant advances, but there were also terrible
READ MOREThe title antiChrist has been applied by some to various emperors and popes of the Middle Ages, Napoleon III of France, Hitler, Mussolini, Apollo astronauts, and even to former president Reagan. Armageddon has been associated with World Wars I and II as well as the long-feared World War III. The biblical concept of "Babylon the
READ MOREAs a result of comments in today's media, I write to provide some insight about my thoughts on organized religion. I want to be clear about one thing. I respect the role that religious organizations play I our communities and more importantly, that faith plays in people's lives. I appreciate the presence of religious organizations
READ MORESuddenly time is everything, and all-consuming. This once-in-a-lifetime passage–no, that's hopelessly out of scale–this societal blank check of entering a new millennium is consuming us all. And yet time is the ultimate intangible. One twentieth-century writer expressed it as the artifice of eternity. But time is the pool that we swim in, and as you
READ MORESomehow a reporter from a local paper found out about my mother's decision. And that was when I found out the terrible truth–I was living with a criminal. There it was in black and white in our local newspaper: "Vera Miller is in violation of the law, as she refuses to send her son to
READ MORECassie Bernall was a Columbine High School student, shot to death by another Columbine High School student in one of this country's worst school shootings. In America we don't expect to give up our lives for our faith, let alone in high school. But Cassie did. The killers selected their victims, it seems, based largely
READ MOREIn the contest that is being waged in this country for the preservation of the rights of conscience, the point has been reached where a special organ is again felt to be a necessity in the educational work which aims to bring the people to a right decision upon this question. As such an organ,
READ MOREIt is this concern for our culture that spurs calls for a reinstitution of prayer and Bible reading in public schools. Given my church background, some are surprised to hear my response to such requests. While I understand the anger and frustration many feel toward the federal courts and those who use the courts to
READ MOREMany of those who believe the government should take on the task of promoting Christian morality are focusing their attention on the public schools. And why not, one might ask, since schools are plagued by crime and drugs. Seemingly only an atheistic killjoy could take pleasure in squelching an innocent public prayer in school. The
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