Editor’s Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove CityCollege. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we hope will prove illuminating to readers everywhere. In this latest edition, Dr. Paul Kengor, the executive director of the Center for Vision... Continue Reading

  Certain elements in the news media are attacking Sarah Palin’s religious beliefs. This has included several bizarre articles, in mainstream publications, highly critical of her local church. One source blasted her “Neanderthal faith.”   As usual, the liberal press is demonstrating its lack of understanding of evangelicals and its gross double standard and bigotry... Continue Reading

  Emergent leader Brian McClaren says "everything must change," not only websites and titles. Our political candidates seem to agree. I too am witness to enormous changes over my adult life.    I was raised in the heyday of European rationalistic secular humanism, and came as a student to America in 1964 to discover a... Continue Reading

  We have been notified some of the families whose children attend the elementary school at Valley Presbyterian Church (PCA) in North Hills (located in the San Fernando Valley area of Los AngelesCounty) have been affected by the wildfires.   Ferocious desert winds pushed one of three major wildfires burning across Southern California to nearly double... Continue Reading

  How often have we heard or given the counsel, "Just do the right thing." So many of life’s problems could be avoided if we and others would only do what we know is right. Of course, the problem is as old as Adam and Eve. Had they just done the right thing, there is... Continue Reading

At its meeting on October 3, 2008, Pacific Northwest Presbytery overwhelmingly determined that Rev. Peter Leithart’s theology is within the bounds of Reformed confessional orthodoxy. Pacific Northwest Presbytery debated the merits of a Majority Report  [Editors note: the original URL (link) referenced in this article is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.] over... Continue Reading

  WASHINGTON, Christian Newswire — The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh voted on Saturday, October 4, 2008, to end its affiliation with the national denomination. The vote carried with support from 119 of the 191 lay delegates and 121 of the 160 clergy delegates. The diocese has aligned itself with another province in the Anglican Communion,... Continue Reading

  A casualty of the left’s hatred for President George W. Bush has been a destructive inability to separate fact from fiction in the ongoing history of the war in Iraq. The latest case, which, sadly, has dug its way into the head of the Democratic presidential nominee, is the allegation that American troops, when... Continue Reading

  When I was a young minister, a man who never attended church (though formally a member) died unexpectedly. Sometime later I was visiting with one of his sons and the son’s wife. During our conversation the young man said to me, “My Daddy believed that the Second Coming was near and would occur, if... Continue Reading

  Economic and political destabilization ranked high on al-Qaeda’s list of strategic objectives in the 9/11 attacks on the WorldTradeCenter and Washington, DC. In addition to killing nearly 3,000 innocent people, the attacks immediately inflicted over $80 billion dollars in damage, sent the airline industry into a tailspin, and forced the United States to undertake... Continue Reading