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Good Christians, Good Citizens?0
- July/August 2000
- July 1, 2000
What Is a Good Citizen? The continuing American cultural debate on what is good and bad in the body politic again brings up the question that the first Christians asked in their totally different and hostile milieu. The great early American statesman and orator Daniel Webster once stated that "whatever makes men good Christians makes
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Breaktime 0
- July/August 2000
- July 1, 2000
Television comedian David Letterman always regales his audience with a "top 10 list." They are designed to be funny and often are, although the humor is frequently in poor taste, insulting, gross, and/or scatological. It turns out that within the past year the Congress of the United States, especially the House of Representatives, has advanced
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A License To Speak?0
- May/June 2000
- May 1, 2000
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Op. Cit.0
- September/October 2000
- May 1, 2000
"The Power Choice" article states that many evangelicals are moving away from supporting Separation of Church and State. The primary reason for that shift is that the humanist-dominated courts, media and politicians have redefined that term. When Jefferson coined the phrase in a letter to Baptists he meant that Church and State were separate entities
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Religious Divide 0
- May/June 2000
- May 1, 2000
Evangelist John Wayne "punkin" Brown picked up the three-foot yellow timber rattlesnake while delivering one of his raucous sermons in Alabama in 1998. "They say it won't bite," Brown bellowed as the rattler twisted itself into the shape of a V. "If it won't bite, there ain't no sense in being scared." But he had
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Defending the Sinai Ten 0
- May/June 2000
- May 1, 2000
The Ten Commandments Defense Act Amendment was written in reaction to the Columbine High shootings last year. On June 17, 1999, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 248 to 180 to attach it to the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 1999. While the Senate version of the bill does not contain this amendment, it is
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