When Donald Trump was first reelected president, there was a lot of talk in conservative evangelical circles about the need for building. In light of the failures of so many legacy institutions during 2020, including Christian ones, there was a necessity to replace mistrusted churches and other organizations with trusted ones. Both fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals […]

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 […]