Opinion

Topic: How Important Are Chaplains? Chaplains in America are older than the nation. This includes military chaplains and legislative chaplains. In fact, when the ACLU challenged the chaplain program in the early 1980s, the Supreme Court ruled against them because of the historical reality of the whole chaplaincy program, which predated the writing of the […]

Topic: Thomas Jefferson and His Minister Friend, Charles Clay. When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they said that our rights come from the Creator, that is, God. Thomas Jefferson was the chief author of the first draft of the Declaration. When Jefferson referred to God, did he mean the God of the Bible? […]

[Original title: NPR, Truth, and Public Funding] President Trump has repeated his call to defund PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) and NPR (National Public Radio). Under the First Amendment, PBS and NPR certainly have the right to free expression, but must the American taxpayers be forced to fund them? From a Christian and conservative perspective, they […]

Topic: Can We Trust the Bible? The Bible played a key role in helping to create the United States of America. Andrew Jackson called the Bible, “the book on which our republic rests.” But today there are many scholars who question the reliability of the Bible. Does archaeology and sources outside the New Testament shine […]

Topic: The George Washington Bible. We are blessed to have study Bibles. We almost take them for granted. Perhaps the first type of study Bible was the Geneva Bible of 1560. But there was another study Bible that was produced in the late 1700s by Rev. John Brown of Haddington, Scotland. That Bible was so […]