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It’s Time for the American Church to Stop ‘Dithering’ About Faith
- Education, Entertainment, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- July 11, 2025
Positive views of socialism are growing. Forty-two percent of Americans hold a positive view of the ideology in a recent Pew Research report. A Gallup poll placed socialism’s favorability at 36 percent only a decade ago. Why the growing numbers? A look at personal explanations from the Pew report sheds some light on this growth. In
READ MORE1) “It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” 2) “There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.” 3) “Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.” 4) “In a state of nature,
READ MOREIs the American project doomed because the Enlightenment liberal philosophy on which it is based contains such contradictions that today’s social and political failures were inevitable? Or are we inflicting disintegration on ourselves through bad thinking and bad choices in more recent times, committing a kind of cultural suicide? These are among the happy choices
READ MOREStanding before a dozen microphones in Wisconsin on Tuesday, Julia Jackson called for prayers and healing – not violence – following the shooting of her son, Jacob Blake. “If Jacob knew what was going on as far as that goes, the violence and destruction, he would be very unpleased,” Mrs. Jackson said. Blake, a 29-year-old
READ MOREFor the last year and a half, Americans have watched political contenders fly around the country explaining why he or she should be president of the United States. But it was not always done this way (and I’m not talking about airplanes). For the first half-century of our republic’s existence, one was not supposed to
READ MOREI know the propaganda game as well as anyone who lived and worked through the tail-end of the Cold War. I worked for the amply-funded propaganda arms of the two most propaganda-minded governments in the world, first as a broadcaster and newsroom subeditor with the BBC World Service in Bush House, London (1980-1986), and more
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