I only did what I had to do.

At Christmas we often have special services and pageants to celebrate the birth of Christ. In the light of the Sandy Hook massacre, many of us have been reminded of the slaughter of the innocents ordered by King Herod after Jesus’ birth. I’ve often...

Are we all nuts?

Have you noticed the frequent news reports on how sales of automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips went straight through the roof in the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook? Afraid that the murder of innocent children and their teachers — on top...

When words run dry

I had already posted my Friday blog and was on the road when a news alert on my cell phone said that a murderer had gunned down 20 little children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. For the next couple of days, news media,...

Theft by taxes

Do taxes qualify as stealing? That’s the impression one gets from a Baptist Press report on the Nov. 14-16 meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Milwaukee. During a session on “wealth redistribution,” Southwestern Baptist Theological...

The Mother of all Floods?

Every now and then, someone comes up with a purported proof for something like Noah’s flood. “Answers in Genesis,” the Australian group behind the elaborate Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY, is still trying to build a full-scale replica of...