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We take much for granted in the West and especially here in the United States. The legacy of a Christian past supplies us with blessings we do not adequately appreciate.  One of those blessings is a general respect for the value of human life.  The belief that all people are of equal intrinsic value is […]

Several years ago I read a wonderful and inspiring book called How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin J. Schmidt who is an emeritus professor of sociology at Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois. This book along with others documents the positive effect the life and teachings of the Jesus and His followers have had on human […]

This is a film clip from the movie 1984. I haven’t seen this movie in many years but I do remember this scene because it was so disturbing. The statement “Freedom is the freedom to say 2 + 2 = 4” rings in my ears today because freedom is also the freedom to call a […]

Harvard professor, Mark Tushnet is arguing that conservative Christians ought to be treated like Nazis.  In Duxbury Connecticut dozens of nude and semi-nude ‘selfies’ taken by local high school girls for their boyfriends were discovered posted online at Dropbox and NYC mayor Bill de Blasio called for a boycott of Chick-Fil-A, not because Chick-Fil-A actually […]

In 1987 a public relations consultant and a researcher of neuropsychiatry wrote a book laying out a strategy designed to change the minds of Americans about homosexuality.  Among other things the book (After the Ball) detailed a plan to cast homosexual behavior not as an activity in which men and women sometimes engage, but as […]

Last month several leaders from our church attended one of the “Understanding Gender Identity” sessions sponsored by District 211 in order to help us (the community) better understand the school board’s 5-2 decision in December to allow a biological male to use the girls’ locker rooms and restrooms at Fremd High School. What we witnessed […]