The other side finds a way to get its people involved, to raise money. Our side is thinking about something else. — James Dobson Some years ago, Druid Hills Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, was dealing with the issue of homosexual clergy. The Evangelical Lutheran Church was wrestling with the

Most of us have heard of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), about a naïve Senator who ends up taking on the establishment. It’s a good film. It stars Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur. It’s one of AMC’s Top 100 films. It was not popular with the political establishment crowd

Jesus said, “Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself shall not stand” (Matthew 12:25). “Just preach the gospel.” How many times have you heard pastors and critics of social and political action scold Christians concerned about the moral direction the church

“You shall not steal” is a fundamental biblical commandment that’s found in both Testaments (Ex. 20:15; 21:16; Lev. 19:11, 13; Matt. 19:18; Rom. 13:9). If property is theft, as one Christian stated on his Facebook page, then every person in the world is a thief because everyone owns something. If

The Brett Kavanaugh case is a study in the application of justice. There are two people with different stories with no evidence to examine and weigh. It’s one person’s word against another’s word based on events that may or may not have happened nearly 40 years ago. What’s obscuring the

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) referred to a pocket-sized version of the U.S. Constitution that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh often referred to it during the judge’s confirmation hearing as “that book you carry.” That “book” contained a copy of the document that Harris and every member of Congress takes an

Supreme Court Associate Justice James Wilson (1742-1798) said that the government of the United States of America is “the best form of government which has ever been offered to the world.” Wilson, as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional Convention and a signer of the Declaration of Independence (one

“According to a poll by YouGov, only six of the ten [commandments] are important to British Christians, with most saying the other four are not ‘important principles to live by’ in the 21st century.” This might explain what we’re seeing in every area of life – from sexual assaults, homosexuality, governmental

Some time ago I was watching the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950), a film about Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Early in the film, Holmes is introduced to the first of his law-school graduate secretaries played by Jimmy Lydon, best known for his role as Henry Aldrich in the film

There’s not a lot to celebrate this July 4th. Our founding institutions have been corrupted and subverted, and it didn’t begin when the Supreme Court ruled that states must sanction the perversion of something called “same-sex marriage.” When Supreme Court Justice Charles Evan Hughes declared, “We are under a Constitution,

Denouncing all religions, as atheists do, only elevates its own version of faith over all other belief systems. What is its ethic? Why should anybody follow anything an atheist has to say? By what standard? Whose atheist version of law? Atheists have denounced religion as the source of all evil

More pastors are speaking out on the relationship between the Bible and politics. Unfortunately, some of them are creating a false dichotomy between the gospel and politics. The latest is Perry Noble, pastor NewSpring Church that meets in different locations in major cities in South Carolina and online. He writes

If you’ve ever been in a debate over abortion, you know where the land-mine questions are buried. The first one is, “You have no right to tell me what I can do with my own body.” The most accurate and simplest answer is, “Of course I don’t have any right

About 1000 delegates at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials were having lunch when they heard a very odd request. “It’s very important that you use your utensils as soon as possible,” board member Raquel Regalado told the delegates at the group’s annual conference. It seems their utensils

“[T]he English students at Harvard University once insisted on the Boston telephone book being placed on the reading list alongside the works of Shakespeare as . . . there is no greater merit in the one than the other. Good and evil are, therefore, totally relative to the society in

An article by Kevin Johnson that appeared on the front page of USA Today reports that “More than half a dozen states are reclassifying a range of property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, a change that could spare prison terms for minor offenses and save states jail and prosecution costs.”1