‘Talk About Jesus’ Air Force Trainer Won’t Face Discipline
Military Says No Tolerance for Prosletyzing in Ranks
“God will always be a part of the U.S. Military even when you are gone to meet him face to face,” the foundation quoted the email as saying in a statement. “I am on staff at USAFA and will talk about Jesus Christ my Lord and savior to everyone that I work with.” An... Continue Reading
Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD
French children don't need medications to control their behavior: The case against labeling and medicating children, and effective alternatives for treating them
As a therapist who works with children, it makes perfect sense to me that French children don’t need medications to control their behavior because they learn self-control early in their lives. The children grow up in families in which the rules are well-understood, and a clear family hierarchy is firmly in place. In French families,... Continue Reading
The Denominational Imperative
Understanding the phenomenon of the development of atheist mega-churches
Every community of value, religious or otherwise, becomes a denomination in America. Atheists, as they want public recognition, begin to exhibit the characteristics of a religious denomination: They form national organizations, they hold conferences, they establish local branches (“churches”, in common parlance) which hold Sunday morning services—and they want to have atheist chaplains in universities and... Continue Reading
School Wrote To Parents Telling Them Their Eight-Year-Olds Had To Attend Workshop On Islam – Or Be Branded RACIST On Their Permanent Record
Parents told their children would be marked down for racial discrimination if they did not attend a workshop on Islam
The headmistress of Littleton Green Community School, in Huntington, Staffordshire, wrote to parents telling them about the school trip to the Explore Islam workshop at Staffordshire University next week. They were told the Years Four and Six children would be looking at religious artefacts on their visit – and threatened with being labelled as racists... Continue Reading
Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Law to Stand
The law restricting abortion centers took effect Oct. 31, and as a result, about a third of the abortion centers in the state will close
The law’s challengers had submitted an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the law as litigation continues. Justice Antonin Scalia handles emergency applications from Texas, but likely due to the controversial nature of the law, he had his eight colleagues weigh in. A divided U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas’ new abortion... Continue Reading
Cities Need The Black Middle Class
The most stabilizing group of residents in inner-city communities has always been the black middle class.
During the era of racial segregation, it was the black middle class that stabilized many of these communities as blacks migrated from the South to the northern cities after World War II. Many of these neighborhoods have had low-income residents for decades but they did not have the same social pathologies and economic degradation that... Continue Reading
Women in Jesus’ Genealogy
He came from a lineage of sinners to save sinners
Five women are included, mostly poor, mostly misfits, widows, unimportant, unknown, sinful women who changed the course of history by their simple, obedient lives. One might suppose that the women in Jesus the Messiah’s genealogy should have all been the finest Jewish women, but they weren’t. Most weren’t even Jewish at all. And except for... Continue Reading
Antinomianism by Mark Jones: A Review
A worthwhile resource on the topics of grace, law/gospel, justification, and sanctification
Jones’ chapter on antinomian rhetoric (where the opening quote above is found) is very helpful. I agree that there is much moralistic preaching in churches today. But we have to be careful not to overreact and overemphasize justification at the expense of sanctification. We have to be careful not to overemphasize Jesus’ work (what he’s... Continue Reading
Look Ma, No Worship!
Considering The Extreme Ends of Worship Trends
Bluntly put, worship isn’t done by lost, dead people, in ways that comfort their “lostness.” Let me add that corporate worship is not, strictly speaking, evangelism. While it includes evangelism, it is not evangelism per se. And if we confuse this point, if we structure and market Sunday worship primarily for non-believers, we walk a... Continue Reading
Ten Times It’s Wise to Hold Your Tongue
Ten situations where it's better to refrain from talking
When you don’t have anything to say that gives grace: Ephesians 4:29: “Let no corrupt talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear it.” I talk too much. Way, way too much. But God... Continue Reading