Birthing Life and Hope Amid Fear
Our real sense of security comes from God’s Word.
A coworker of mine sent out a note Sunday morning, asking for prayer because both his cousin and grandmother had died from COVID-19, the disease caused by this new coronavirus. And the latest forecast is that, in the U.S. alone, there will be 100,000 or more deaths from this virus. Yet God tells us—His very name... Continue Reading
Kentucky State Police Mark License Plate Numbers Of Churchgoers Who Attended In-Person Services
KSP troopers put notices on cars in the parking lot of Maryville Baptist Church in Hillview, saying the people inside the church will need to self-quarantine.
Governor Andy Beshear followed through on a promise he made Friday – there will be consequences for people who attend in person Easter services. “Understand that this is the only way that we can ensure that your decision doesn’t kill somebody else,” Gov. Beshear said. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Some religious leaders believe the lines... Continue Reading
1918: When Another Pandemic Struck Close to Home
In the United States, my state of Pennsylvania became one of the hardest hit, where some 60,000 people died, and few locales escaped.
It was 1918, and the war in Europe was on. In March, the first case of what became known as the Spanish Flu appeared at a Kansas Army post. By late 1919, 675,000 Americans had died. Around the world, an estimated 60 million lives would be lost by 1922. In 1998, the eightieth anniversary... Continue Reading
Ventilators and Value
Rather than viewing all life as inherently valuable, utilitarianism views life as valuable if it leads to beneficial outcomes for most people.
We are now living in a time where we are instituting a sliding scale of deserving vulnerability and a terrifyingly dystopian approach to healthcare. If my pal in his 70s, with COPD and muscular dystrophy, gets coronavirus at the same time as me, he’ll be booted off the ventilator for my sake. That is as... Continue Reading
Is the Current Crisis Really “Unprecedented”?
Let’s get a feel for what qualifies as unprecedented by reviewing a time or two in U.S. history when something truly without precedent happened.
Both the founders’ revolution and the progressives’ revolution by evolution were unprecedented in U.S. history. They changed the operating system of our nation. In both cases, the relationship between the people and their government was dramatically altered. Is it possible that we are watching something unprecedented unfold as national, state, and local governments respond to... Continue Reading
COVID-19 and Being at Wits’ End
See this COVID-19 event as a God-given opportunity to pray for believer and unbeliever alike.
My friends, in light of the present distress of COVID-19 may we pray, asking God to use this pestilence of judgment to drive millions of people to their wits’ end, that they will realize all their hard work, planning, self-confidence, professional abilities, and experience are no match for any time God decides to walk through... Continue Reading
Attempts to Secularize Yoga in Alabama Schools
There is no yoga without Hinduism and no Hinduism without yoga.
Real Hindus do not want someone to blend their religion with another such as Christianity. There are some who, baselessly other than their own desire to do so, state that we can practice Christian yoga. That is like saying Christianity is Hindu. Using any Hindu practice for a non-religious purpose, in this case yoga, is... Continue Reading
How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
Authoritarian blindness had turned an easily solvable problem into a bigger, durable crisis that exacted a much heavier political toll, a pattern that would repeat itself after a mysterious strain of pneumonia emerged in a Wuhan seafood market. China is in the grip of a momentous crisis. The novel coronavirus that emerged late last... Continue Reading
The LGBT Movement’s Dangerous Hypocrisy on Conversion Therapy
The Utah law adds conversion therapy to a list of practices considered to be “unprofessional conduct” for state-licensed mental health therapists.
Is sexual orientation fixed or fluid? For LGBT activists, the answer depends on what position most benefits their cause. When it comes to conversion therapy to change sexual orientation, the LGBT lobby claims that homosexuality is immutable and cannot be changed. Yet in other contexts they claim that sexual orientation is fluid, especially in adolescence.... Continue Reading
The Dark Road From Abortion to Infanticide in American Law
This essay attempts a review of the legislative, judicial, political, and social developments of recent years in regard to abortion.
In Roe, the Supreme Court spoke of “potential life” and said that it need not decide the supposedly “difficult question of when life begins.” Even though Justice Blackmun for the Court did not know, the science of embryology knew the answer to the question then and now: “the sex of the new individual . . .... Continue Reading
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