Writings

  • Poverty and Morality

    A link between your dollars for helping the poor in Africa and the worsening of the problem? Take a look at this… London – British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday that neighbouring African countries had a responsibility to address the crisis in Zimbabwe, and suggested it could hamper his G8 goal of helping…

  • Love, Marriage, & Sexuality

    Perhaps its self-evident that there is a direct link between a culture’s view of sexuality and the kind of marriages that culture produces. Yet we need studies such as a recent one from the sociological journal Demography to tell us things we ought to already know. Such links may be self-evident but they conviently ignored in our…

  • KKK Preacher Found Guilty

    KKK Preacher Found Guilty

    “Edgar Ray Killen has likely seen the last of his freedom after a judge sentenced the 80-year-old former Klansman to 60 years in prison for orchestrating the slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.” [story here…] The news of Killian’s 60 year sentence for his part in the death of the Freedom Riders 50…

  • Tenting  

    Tenting   

    “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…” The Apostle John My two boys could hardly wait until night fell and we got the tent set up. I had been promising them for a week that we would camp out in the backyard together–just a guy trip, Jacob told his mother. So there we…

  • Swearing on the Koran

    Swearing on the Koran

    There is controversy brewing in the state courts of North Carolina over the practice of swearing court witnesses in using “the Holy Scriptures.” A group of outspoken Muslims are demanding that the Koran be permitted to be used in this procedure. Callers to a local radio show here where I am writing voiced a range…