We seem a people steeped in traditions that we no longer really understand. We go through mere motions (just as I was when eating without tasting) without sensing our activity’s true essence.
In the war of ideas, the battle for the minds of men, the library is a central field of conflict, because the library is a repository of ideas.
Microschools exemplify a future where education is custom fit to every child's needs, fostering environments where curiosity, collaboration, and personal growth are paramount.
“Swatting” should be a felony in Alabama.
Proverbs is called “the book of wisdom.” It contains and explains dozens, maybe hundreds, of common sense guidelines for more Godly living. It’s a how-to book for everyday life.
As we all start a New Year, John Ed, as almost everyone calls him, has made a common sense suggestion for a New Year’s resolution, really for a life change.
It seems that every sacred profession is in a major state of decay, which is also evidence of massive societal decline.
The United Nations' Climate Change Conference (COP) is a joke, but the COP is also serious. It is past time for the U.S. to instigate a COP-out.
Next year might witness the inclusion of a three- or four-loss team over a two-loss team. And looming more significantly is who matters in college football and society: the participants or the experts.
As you prepare for the new year, writing down your resolutions, I pray that you will join me in making a promise to the people who matter most.
“You don’t get married, because it’s the smart thing. You get married because a man is incomplete until he’s married.”
“How do we get involved? Are there examples of what we can do?”
With all the divisiveness in American politics and government, there is at least one issue with overwhelming support — almost unanimous. Just about everybody is for lower drug prices.
In retrospect, conservatism wasn't something imposed upon me; it evolved because I had two parents who were present, caring, and dedicated to guiding me in the right direction.
Let’s stop funding systems and start empowering parents. Let’s start putting students first.
To say this season has been an emotional one would be an understatement. It’s devastating to watch someone you love in the sunset of their life.
The Christmas Wars – at root a worldview conflict between those who want to celebrate Christmas as a Christian holiday and those who want to secularize or ignore it – continued this year.
Vote as if your city, county, state, and country depend on it – because they do.
I had never been curious enough to research "Boxing Day,” so all I knew about it was that it was the day after Christmas, December 26.
American democracy keeps killing the thing it theoretically loves – individual liberty – yet American democracy does not die.
"I have many questions about this curriculum, which could easily be answered if you honored my request. The fact that you won’t is interesting, particularly since your own website stresses the importance of parental involvement."
Christmas has a way of changing things. As surely as the history and faith of the world changed in a lowly Bethlehem manger over 2,000 years ago, there are still moments today that cannot be explained except to say that the spirit of Christmas overcame the worst of circumstances.
Frederick Douglass stood as the most profound advocate for “legal” immigration. For instance, in an 1867 Boston speech titled "Composite Nation," Douglass welcomed Chinese immigrants as contributors to the nation's wealth and resources... as long as they came legally.
The Pilgrims’ first Christmas in the New World was remarkable, but not for the reasons you’d think. On December...
When we have Jesus, the giver of life, truth, peace, comfort, and joy, we have all we need.
The manger was made of cardboard. It was stuffed with fresh hay. Genuine hay from the hardware store. The Christchild was a naked Cabbage Patch doll from Brianna Smith’s personal collection. Orange yarn for hair. Jesus was a redhead.
While we fill our weekend with holly jolly, coupling it with holy reverence, it’s important to remember why Christ came: to set the captives free.