When Shrugging is Not an Option
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
Smart advertisers understand the value of tapping into the celebrity of famous sports and entertainment figures in order to build instant credibility and brand recognition. Athletic gear manufacturer Nike would slip off the radar screen without the purchased endorsement of legendary athletes like Michael Jordan, whose shoes made him fly. Would-be members of Congress solicit
READ MORETwelve not very impressive drawings in Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, brought more trouble religiously, politically, and financially than any other event in Denmark's modern history. Some of the pictures depicted Muhammad in a derisive manner. The reaction of zealous Muslims did not take place until three months after their publications. A ban based on a
READ MOREIn a lot of ways, Terrence McGarr is your average teenager transitioning into young adulthood. He loves music and sports and is working two jobs as he prepares to start college this fall. But growing up in a home where the religious belief forbids certain kinds of work between sunset on Friday to sunset on
READ MOREAs we all learned—or should have learned—in school, the Constitution of the United States created a new, national government of limited, divided powers. Of course, the Constitution was and is not perfect. Still, it is worth remembering and celebrating the Founders' insight and creativity. Theirs was a bold, innovative experiment. Those who designed and ratified
READ MOREFor the past few years I have been writing a book entitled The Divided States of America? What Liberals AND Conservatives Are Missing in the God-and-Country Shouting Match! The book, published this past April, is the product of almost a half century of reflection and study about an issue that matters deeply to me as
READ MORERobert Lesure was good at his job, and that was about to cause him a problem. An assistant recreation supervisor for the city of Albany, Georgia, Parks and Recreation Department, he simply wanted to keep his Sabbath. However, standing up for his beliefs meant that by the time his case was over he would be
READ MORERichard Land's The Divided States of America? (published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007) has as its subtitle: What Liberals AND Conservatives Are Missing in the God-and-Country Shouting Match! It is a thought-provoking book that analyzes both groups of shouters. Albeit he does seem to come down a little harder on the secular
READ MOREWe are now approaching the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pennsylvania legislature's decision to lift a 140-year-old ban on Sunday sports. This finally happened in April 1933 with Sunday baseball games scheduled for 1934 in the Commonwealth. They cleared the way for all major league baseball teams to play some games on Sunday. The struggle for
READ MOREThe constitutional system of the United States of America remains the envy of much of the outside world, despite the growing unrest of our European allies toward our country's administration, and the continual provocation against it by terrorists and a few hostile Arab nations. The greatest threat to our constitutional system comes from within. Most
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