What images come to mind about your parents’ or grandparents’ wedding? Maybe a short service after morning worship with “cake and punch,” then a drive out to Long Island, the Sierras, or the Florida Keys for a few days. Perhaps an afternoon affair in the local courthouse, with some siblings, cousins, or friends acting as […]

A Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor In Parts I and II, I explained historian Edward Gibbon’s first three reasons why the Roman Empire fell. The first involved the decline of art, which really showed a deeper problem – an increased immorality that led to the taste of the good and the beautiful to drastically […]

There are many sins of the tongue—gossip, slander, swearing, coarse joking—but one sin may be even more displeasing to God than these: the sin of complaining.  Complaining and grumbling are mentioned nearly fifty times in Scripture, and it’s never a positive thing. Consider the story in Numbers 11. The Israelites had been freed from Egyptian […]

In a meeting in 1969, a gathering of feminist, Marxist women chanted these words, which mirror a form of catechism: Q.”Why are we here today?”  A.”To make revolution,”  Q.”What kind of revolution?”  A.”The Cultural Revolution,” Q.”And how do we make Cultural Revolution?”  A.”By destroying the American family!”  Q.”How do we destroy the family?”  A.”By destroying […]