What’s the matter with young people today? If this is the future of our country, our nation is doomed. The trouble with youngsters today… I can remember hearing statements like these when I was a teenager, 40+ years ago. And I’m still hearing them today. I’ve even...
Sigh. Another one bites the dust. Every Friday afternoon for most of my early elementary school experience, I received a copy of The Weekly Reader. Long before I read newspapers for updates on current events, the Weekly Reader alerted me to news in age-appropriate...
I love to read. Newspapers, magazines, books. Lots and lots of books. Now that the class I teach has ended for the year, I’ll have a chance to catch up on some recreational reading. But there’s one book in particular I will not be reading. Not because my own county...
During this past week, I either watched or learned of the following: A friend’s husband removed political bumper stickers from the family car because of safety concerns for his wife and children. A politically active local group is seeking to have a newspaper...
There’s a new fad circulating on a few social media sites. It’s a guessing game “Age Test” that offers photos of items that have fallen out of use and into obscurity. Photos of a roller-skate key, a sardine can key, an eight-track player, even drive-in movie theater...
Sports fans are well-known for unfailing loyalty to their teams. Players come and players go, but for better or worse, true fans stay faithful. Until now. Until Tebow. Tim Tebow is more than just a football player. He’s a phenomenon. Fans flock to him. And now that...
Is nothing sacred, anymore? Why would any Christian want to say no to The Girl Scouts – an organization as American as apple pie? And yet…that’s just what some are saying today. For all the good this organization has done and is doing, should we ignore the following:...
We can all breathe a sigh of relief. Another prediction for the end of the world has passed, unfulfilled. For some, it wasn't even a question. For others, it just proved that the real end will come in 2012. The end of the world seems to be an increasingly popular...
This past summer, I wrote a blog post about Convictions, Preferences, and Disagreements. I mentioned my concern that regardless of the topic, the art of civil disagreement in our culture has been replaced with uncontrolled vitriol. This week, Jim Daly, President of...
Are people with religious convictions the only ones who live by faith? Some say that’s a no-brainer. The answer is yes, and by the way, anyone with religious faith has no brains. That’s one answer. But the fact remains that every single person on the face of the earth...
By now you may have heard about Christian celebrities who have either renounced their faith or are in the process of...
Happy 243rd birthday, America. You've changed a lot in those 243 years. In some ways for the better. In other ways,...
Our news feeds have been filled with horrific pictures of Notre Dame Cathedral being consumed by devastating flames....