Reading the Diary of Anne Frank I honestly can’t remember what grade I was in when I first read “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Perhaps around the same age as Anne, the young Jewish girl who was given a diary on her 13th birthday, just before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis…
Donald Trump’s Amorality & Evangelicals’ Day of Reckoning
Evangelicals’ Fascination with Donald Trump As far back as 2011, Evangelical Christians’ fascination with Donald Trump, culminating in his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, has been on a collision course with the Biblical faith that we say we hold dear. A time of reckoning with putting our faith in (at times bordering on idolatry) political…
Court Rebukes NM Governor for Unconstitutional Power Grab
“Whenever fundamental rights are restricted, the Supreme Court and other courts cannot close their eyes,” Justice Alito said this month, rejecting the view that “whenever there is an emergency, executive officials have unlimited, unreviewable discretion.” (“Splitting 5 to 4, Supreme Court Backs Religious Challenge to Cuomo’s Virus Shutdown Order”) NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s…
Tim Tebow: Ridiculed & Blessed!
(Originally published on October 18, 2010, and updated on August 31, 2023.) Swamp Kings and the Legend of Tim Tebow I just finished watching “Swamp Kings,” the new Netflix documentary that chronicles the rise of the Florida Gators under Urban Meyer’s tenure as Head Coach from 2005-2010. During a three-year span, the University of Florida…
Lifeway Strikes Again: Have You No Decency?
“You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” Joseph Welch, Chief Counsel to the U.S. Army (directed to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the “Army-McCarthy Hearings, June 9, 1954) Lifeway Strikes Again! When news broke this week that Lifeway Christian Resources was shuttering its music…