One of the most common sayings in the English language is “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” signifying the gradual accumulation of heavy burden until finally, one additional blade…
Category: Opinion
Dining across culture war divides
My lefty dinner guests who were chowing down on Coq Au Vin and pumpkin cobbler around my table the other night recounted how they have seen behind the Woke Left…
Reflections on the year ahead
As I sit in my study writing this column, I find myself in a contemplative mode. I have just experienced a Christmas season unlike any other in my eight decades…
Jewish students harassed on campus is unacceptable
I want to challenge Christian groups on college campuses and campus ministers to organize a concerted effort to accompany their fellow Jewish students to class and by their presence help…
Ghosts of the past: Hamas, Israel and justice
The hideous Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians (including women, children, and infants) remind us that nothing in the Middle East happens in a vacuum and the ghosts of the…
Humor amid the horror: The Babylon Bee stings the gender beast
If you’ve spent the last several years staring into the abyss of transgenderism, you learn to endure it by drinking deeply of some good biblical medicine: laughter (Proverbs 13:22). Read…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 75th anniversary (part 1)
The UDHR articulates in its 30 articles every human being’s basic, fundamental rights and freedoms and affirms those rights as universal and unalienable. The UDHR directly led to the development…
60 years since MLK’s ‘I have a dream speech’: Good and bad changes since
For me, someone raised in the segregated South, having attended segregated schools, a segregated church, and living in a segregated neighborhood, his sermon to America was a clarion call to…
Adrian Rogers’ pastoral legacy: Passing on dedication to an inerrant Holy Scripture and equipping of local church pastors
In one of the last public addresses Dr. Adrian Rogers delivered before his untimely demise at the age of 74, he warned pastors of the mortal threat presented to their…
Is Lady Justice still blind? (part 2)
Jack Smith’s prosecution (or was it “persecution”) of Gov. Bob McConnell was so overly zealous that it provided an extremely rare unanimous Supreme Court repudiation of it. Bob McConnell’s legal…