It’s enough to make an insurance agent tremble: Millions of cash-strapped Americans are saving money by going without life insurance. Ownership of life insurance has reached a 50-year low, according to industry research firm LIMRA. Thirty percent of households (35 million) aren’t covered, up from 22 percent in 2004. Among households with minor-aged children, 11... Continue Reading

The final “Jeopardy!” question of the first game in the two-game match went something like this: What is the name of the U.S. city whose largest airport is named for a WWII hero and its second largest is named for a WWII battle? The answer was Chicago. Watson’s program came up with Toronto. I have... Continue Reading

Oh, what to do about byFaith? What to do, what to do, what to do? The question of funding for the Administrative Committee (AC) has been a hot topic among PCA presbyteries, sessions, individual elders, and other interested individuals for the past few years. It’s now all-but-official that the relevant amendments proposed for the Book... Continue Reading

To get to my favorite coffee shop here in Louisville, I pass a lot of bumper stickers intended to make people like me angry. One of them says “Born Okay the First Time.” Another says “If You Don’t Like Abortion, Don’t Have One.” And, of course, there are several of the Darwin fish, those metallic... Continue Reading

“If South Sudan secedes, we (in the North) will change the constitution. There will be no question of cultural or ethnic diversity. Sharia (strict Islamic law) will be the only source of the constitution, and Arabic the only official language.” After decades of on-again, off-again civil war in Africa’s largest country, the long-awaited democratic process... Continue Reading

The debate, said Shahn Wilburn, the independent Baptist pastor who first suggested displaying the Ten Commandments after Columbine, is “Giles County versus Washington. David versus Goliath. I know that story,” he added. “And I know who won.” Nearly 12 years ago, in the aftermath of the shootings at Columbine High School, officials quietly posted the... Continue Reading

From a Christian perspective, this should serve as a clear alarm for those who suggest that it is paranoid to believe that the state will use similar force to require other acts against conscience. The logic is right here for all to see, and only the willfully blind can deny what this new policy means.... Continue Reading

British Prime Minister David Cameron horrified European elites when he recently proclaimed that multiculturalism has failed. The idea that all culturess are equal and that they can live happily side by side in one country is false. It just doesn’t work. Certainly millennia of human civilization should be proof enough. But there are plenty of... Continue Reading

Many have tried to kill her. Her enemies have been in the thousands. Governments have pursued her in an effort to stop her influence. Kings and Emperors have betrayed and used her for their own political gain. I have a confession. I love her. Who is she? She is the Church. Seems that no matter... Continue Reading

If More Light Presbyterians don’t speak for you, if you do not want the PCUSA to become an agent of public advocacy for sexual anarchy, now is the time to wake up, stand up and speak up. Vote “no” on Amendment 10-A, Amendment 10-1, and Amendment 10-2 Seeking to further erode the sexual ethic God... Continue Reading