Culture/Politics/History

Miss California, Carrie Prejean, 21, competed in the Miss USA pageant, and may have very well lost when she told a nationwide TV audience that she believed marriage should be between a man and a woman. The question was asked by Perez Hilton, who is homosexual, and as one of 12 judges was randomly picked…

The following is part of Billy Wolfe’s presentation on Postmodernism for The Round Table. It affords a very succinct look into some ideas that float around in the mind of postmoderns.

More than 200 scientists and other experts on climate change from Australia, Canada, England, France, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and of course the United States met to discuss and debunk the claims of Global Warming alarmists at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change Al Gore, along with scientists whom he says support…

Anthony Daniels, a self-proclaimed atheist and a contributing editor of City Journal and the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who now writes using the pseudonym “Theodore Dalrymple” takes on the “new atheist misrepresenting the essential role of religious faith in establishing Western civilization and its future survival” in an article “What the New…

It is common for people to view all sin as equally sinful, but that is not correct. It is true that all sin is sin, and any sin is serious enough to send a person to hell; however, not all sin is equally serious or results in the same judgment. Sin is made more serious…

Thanksgiving, quite contrary to political correctness and revisionist historians, began as an act of faith and worship by the Pilgrims. The first Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 in Plymouth, and it was a celebration of God’s bountiful blessing, which the Pilgrims shared with the Indians. The Pilgrims’ lives had been characterized by…

Since the cultural shift of the 1960s, the driving ideology for cultural change has been to do away with any and all objective moral standards. This has included even cultural mores based upon those objective standards. For anyone who knows anything about the way things were, these standards were basically drawn from either the implicit…

Should pastors address political issues and/or the moral and political positions of candidates? The answer from many is a resounding NO! This is particularly true of those who seek to trivialize faith or live contrary to their espoused faith. Historically, pastors have been very outspoken in critiquing political issues and politicians in light of Scripture.…

As Christianity and Christian principles are systematically expunged from the classroom, radicals like Bill Ayers fill the void with radical social justice and anti-Christian values. He still considers himself an “anarchist” and “Marxist” and said concerning the struggle with “religious fundamentalism” of which “jihad” is “the most visible”, that “The religious fundamentalism of the Christians…

–John McCain on the definition of marriage: “The family represents the foundation of Western Civilization and civil society and John McCain believes the institution of marriage is a union between one man and one woman. It is only this definition that sufficiently recognizes the vital and unique role played by mothers and fathers in the…