Written by: John Kenyon, Ch. Lt Col, USAF (ret.) “These are the times that try men’s souls.” In reading this, you may now be thinking back over the last few weeks trying to pin-point which news agency or politician was responsible for this quote. To accurately reference it, you need to look to 1776 and […]

This series is brought to you by Westminster Theological Seminary. In this episode of “Crisis, Christ, and Confidence,” Drs. Gregory Poland, David Garner, and Peter Lillback discuss updates on the COVID-19 outbreak and how believers should navigate their fear. Following COVID-19 safety precautions, we recorded Drs. Garner and Lillback in separate locations. Although you can […]

I recently saw an article concerning the Coronavirus that caused me to pause and reflect upon a mind-set that is extremely persuasive across the cultural landscape of America.

So, here’s what’s at stake in this election and most national elections.  Either we choose the peace of ballots or we face the danger of bullets. Either we vote with wisdom to sustain national and international order or we allow the chaos of conflict to devolve into more than bullets, perhaps even to ballistic missiles.

The epithet of “snowflake” has become the conservative’s favorite less-than-flattering term to describe millennials on contemporary collegiate campuses.  Just who are snowflakes?

If we want to make politics great again, we will have to address these matters.  And there’s no better place to turn than to the Founding Father of our nation, George Washington.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Indeed as April 15 draws near we are reminded of that reality. Yet, there is another reality that we push to the back of our thoughts that looms ever above us; the national debt.

The national remembrance of the great civil rights activist the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. occurs on the third Monday of each January in the USA.  If the African-American orator/activist were still living, this January 15th would mark his 89th birthday.  April 4th will mark the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination (April 4, 1968). […]

There’s an irony in America’s history over taxation.  Laurence J. Peter wrote:  “America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.”  The Sons of Liberty resisted the Stamp Act in 1765 with the protest, “No taxation without representation!”  Yet many taxpayers around April 15th grumble, “Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either.” […]

One who read it said that Lee’s prominence was actually a sham as he was really the cult figure of later southern racists.  They sought to use him to justify Jim Crow laws by celebrating the nobility of the “lost cause” of the Confederacy.  As I reflected, if such were so, then I would question the wisdom of the Lee statues.