Writings

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…

June 28, 2005
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…

June 24, 2005
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…

June 23, 2005
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…

June 22, 2005