Several months ago, I read an article by Nathan Stone that catalyzed my quest to understand the times. Stone begins by remarking that the pro-life movement’s celebration of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs Wade, was short lived. Since this decision, abortions have increased over 40% in 37
Centuries after the gospel brought compassion to ancient Rome, the context of our world today is equally difficult. I have been told of places in Africa where twins are seen as an evil omen; at birth they are not allowed to live. The reality of people begging on the streets
Courage in Tiananmen Square I had never felt more alive than the day I stood with a group of pro-life protesters before a police station in Tucson, Arizona, hands cuffed behind my back. About a hundred of us—mostly Christians—had violated the law to protect the lives of innocent, preborn babies
Only God knows where the COVID 19 storm will take us. Some trends are encouraging, some prognostications troubling. Yet, as many have observed, the pandemic isn’t the leading cause of death in the world. Most likely, you have not been told what is. Seasonal flu? Smoking? Cancer? No. Nor is
Years ago I spent a morning with a group of other young men and women chained together with kryptonite locks to an abortion machine in a “women’s health center.” In two teams of six each, we were at the clinic when it opened. Before the abortionist arrived, the teams entered
God shapes us from our mother’s womb Psalm 139: 13-16 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from
“Second-wave feminists … failed to take into account woman’s intricate connection with nature—that is, with procreation.” Camille Paglia We have a problem at the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. Women are being disconnected from their biology and their design. Modern, second-wave feminists put a
Super Bowl LIV ended in a victory for one team, a defeat for the other, and a loss for society. According to Wikipedia, the Super Bowl is broadcast to 130 countries around, and is the most watched TV broadcast in the US every year. FOX, the network that carried Super
We see the world changing before our eyes. Most of the changes are the consequences of abandoning truth and substituting new ideologies. We are moving from order to chaos, from truth to power. In today’s internet age, these changes are coming faster than ever. Changes that once took generations now
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the
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