Returning to the U.S. after two years as a missionary in South America, I’ve embraced opportunities to share the gospel wherever I’m at. It has been an eye-opener to the broad spectrum of eclectic and contradictory worldviews. Among those I’ve witnessed to, a surprising and recurring theme has been the belief in reincarnation. I know [...]

Abortion has been legalized since the 1973 Roe v. Wade supreme court decision. During the course of these 38 years, nearly 50 million unborn children have been murdered before taking their first breath. Much attention has been given to the harmful physical, emotional and psychological effects to the potential mothers. Kermit Gosnell, a Pennsylvania abortion [...]

Human rights. The general consensus among people in the world today is in support of the protection, advocacy and defense of human dignity. Principles nearly universally favored – aid to the poor, help for the sick and marginalized, and the just treatment for people of all races – prompt people to assist in a number [...]

Enthusiastic Nevada County residents commemorated the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., crowding into the auditorium at the miner’s foundry Monday to partake in what resembled a typical Gospel Church service in the south. Soulful voices resonating and accompanied by the swaying of an eager, genial crowd made one feel they were every [...]

KOVR 13 News @ 10 has done their homework. They know the demographics of their viewers and most importantly, what issues evoke passionate and indignant response – the kind of emotional association which keeps them glued to the tube each evening. I reacted less-than amicably to KOVR’s apparently poignant, gripping headline of the night: A [...]

Do you ever cringe at the sight of a homeless man standing alongside the road holding his usual cardboard sign? Do you swap lanes as you approach a traffic light, so that your vehicle won’t have to come to a stop next to him? Do you intentionally and casually glance the other way, hoping not [...]

Renowned atheist, journalist, and prominent liberal author, Christopher Hitchens, released a New York Times best seller in 2007 titled: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Hitchens is one of several contemporary and atheistic apologists who promote science and rationalism as the answer that will bring ultimate good and freedom to mankind.

In a recent article in CNN’s Opinion Section, the Reverend Jesse Jackson discusses his faith as it leads to his works.  At first glance it seems rather theologically correct.  The book of James does say that faith without works is dead right?  Interestingly enough (to write about), Jackson says that his works have always been [...]