Culture/Politics/History

Claims to the contrary, the facts speak for themselves. First, look at the veteran hospitals if you want to compare the kind of care given in private versus government-run healthcare. Over the past 25 years, I have visited different veteran hospitals on many occasions. The care is minimal and at times atrocious. I have seen…

Can we take seriously President Obama’s denials that his plan will ultimately result in healthcare rationing? Well no. The ultimate end of any such system further devalues the sanctity of human life because the government determines which citizens deserve to get the care they need, and the government can do this while simultaneously denying that…

Whatever happened to repentance? The phrase, “mistakes were made” is popular in politics, education, and in virtually any area where personal responsibility and sin used to be the reigning culprit. However, it does not take much to see why “mistakes were made” rather than “I have sinned” has become so popular. Someone has noted that:…

On May 12, 2005, Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University, delivered the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Speaking “In Defense of History,” he made three points that I would like to apply to the dangerous trend of marginalizing history in much of contemporary preaching. First, I begin with one of…

Recently I read a very interesting book regarding Global Warming entitled, “Unstoppable Global Warming” by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery ((Singer is a climate physicist and is internationally known for his work on climate, energy, and environmental issues. He is Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University. He is also president of The…

When I was in England in 2004, the number of Muslims attending a mosque surpassed the number of Brits attending the State Church of England. I asked a friend of mine, who has served for a number of years planting churches in London, if this meant that they now would request parity? To which he…

David Aikman, initially educated at Oxford, completed a Ph.D. in Russian and Chinese history at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a foreign policy consultant based in the Washington, D.C. area. For a time he was the TIME magazine Beijing bureau chief. In his book, Jesus in…

“On Feb. 24, 1895, The New York Times warned of the next Ice Age, and in 1923, the Chicago Tribune warned that ice would soon make Canada uninhabitable. But by 1933, the same papers were warning of the greatest rise in temperatures since 1776. Reports two decades later also spoke of a spike in global…

Christians oftentimes seem frightened by prayer. They are either afraid that praying really does not work, that they are doing it wrong, or that they may get what is best for them rather than what they want at that moment. Once the mercurial Mary Queen of Scots once fretted, “I fear the prayers of John…

The federal government has a legitimate role of protecting its citizens from threats that seek their destruction, but acting beyond that, it becomes a destructive force. President Ronald Reagan is remembered for saying “Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.” Now, what did he mean? Well, he was not against…