In 1928 a young German theologian – insightful beyond his years – and reflecting upon the German Church, wrote, “We build him a temple, but we live in our own houses.” Sunday morning services had become a place “into which one gladly withdraws for a couple of hours, but only to get…
Read MoreOn, and on, and on it goes! Where the spin stops only the voters really know! Thank God for citizens who take their citizenship seriously! There may yet be hope for America if Evangelical Christians refuse to listen to the Television Networks and Republican Establishment spinners, get out of their pews and go…
Read MoreDo we really think Americans are so dumb that they will take smooth but empty words skillfully crafted, over character and commitment? That is what the media and political pundits would have us believe when they talk about who would beat Barack Obama, the master teleprompter orator in America today. …
Read MoreAs the Fox News Commentators analyzed and commiserated over the Super Tuesday election results, one glaring omission was obvious: the seeming inability of even Carl Rove to show that adding Santorum’s and Gingrich’s vote totals continue to demonstrate that conservatives are clearly in the majority in the Republican Party and do not…
Read MoreOn March 6, 1946, in Columbus, Ohio, the same day we now call “Super Tuesday”, and at the city and state upon which the eyes of the nation are now focused, “President Harry Truman addressed pastors and denominational leaders, calling them to lead. In what is now a prophetic statement, 66…
Read MoreThe Gallup organization reported today that, “Registered voters rate the economy as the most important issue to their 2012 presidential vote, followed by unemployment, the federal budget deficit, and the 2010 healthcare law. Social issues rank as the least important issue.” Listening to the political analysts, pollsters, and the people after each…
Read MoreIn 1950, President Harry Truman, , said, “The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these…
Read MoreRemember the now fading notion that the “Occupy” Movement was somehow going to force us to recognize that capitalizm was the great bane of American society? Remember too that Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House, lauded it as a force for good, much as she did the 2000 page ‘healthcare’…
Read MoreHistory teaches us that we learn nothing from history. It has been said that a nation that forgets it’s history is doomed. We seem to forget that the German people were so eager for leadership they elected Adolph Hitler, “Der Fuhrer,” as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, just…
Read MoreRemember Elmer Gantry? The strategy to mislead and maneuver republican voters to do as the Republican establishment wants, while not overtly out of Sol Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, is more akin to the slick and seductive methods of Elmer Gantry. They, and the media, refuse to acknowledge except in garbled and muffled tones,…
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