Anger is just one of many emotions surrounding the balloon boy hoax. Last Thursday afternoon, much of America paused to pray for the safety of Falcon Heene, who was reportedly inside a homemade aircraft floating high above Colorado, powered by helium and capable of reaching 10,000 feet. When is anger justified? When God is mad,... Continue Reading

“The woman’s movement wasn’t about happiness.” That judgment, attributed to feminist Susan Faludi, seems to be the blunt assessment shared by many other women. As numerous recent studies now indicate, a remarkably large percentage of women describe themselves as increasingly unhappy. This issue came to light last month in a fascinating essay by Maureen Dowd... Continue Reading

Could your church, presbytery use $5,000-$15,000 for a worship project? Read on. Each year the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship disburses about $500,000 in worship renewal grants. My church was awarded one this year (described later). This is the tenth year of the program and grants were awarded to 43 projects in 2009. The CICW... Continue Reading

With the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery in it’s third week and gathering steam. Many church aligned private colleges are having to deal with the issue of their students playing the lottery. So far only 1 college has come out and forbad it’s students from playing. Others, like Crowley’s Ridge College in Paragould are letting their handbook... Continue Reading

Kingdom Civics T. M. Moore, Columnist To them he presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God (Acts 1:3). A warning from our recent past During the Reagan years we began to hear word of a new fear that was... Continue Reading

Starting this coming Monday (Oct 26), The Aquila Report will feature a different columnist each day (Monday through Saturday). Some will write once a month, a few will write twice a month, but all will be providing commentary on a variety of topics from news, culture, ministry, and a few other specialized themes. Be sure... Continue Reading

It is very difficult to look at current events and predict with any reliability that what is happening now will certainly have long term implications and historical significance. It is quite possible that the events of the past few days concerning the scope and plan of the Roman Catholic Church towards dissidents in the Church... Continue Reading

By The Rev. Paul Viggiano It didn’t bother me that President Barack Obama addressed all the kids when public school began. They are, after all, government schools and he is the head of our government. Courts ordering parents to send their children to government-run schools, however, is an entirely different matter. If I, as a... Continue Reading

Commentary from the Washington Post “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class — and was constantly... Continue Reading

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from an editor at a Jewish publication soliciting from me an article “related to creationism.” He asked that it be pegged to the coming Sabbath when Jews across the spectrum of Judaism begin a new cycle of Torah readings. That cycle begins with the account of... Continue Reading