On September 12, 1960 Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts gave a speech to the Houston Ministerial Association at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. He faced great skepticism at that time for a number of reasons not least among which…
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Obey or Don’t – Please Resolve
by Bill Spaulding • • 6 Comments
Last night I was reading a book. That alone is no big deal, except that I don’t do it often enough. But last night I came across something as puzzling as it is interesting. Oh, and it’s a Bible thing.…
‘Gay Marriage’ Challenges Christianity’s Credibility
by Bill Spaulding • • 1 Comment
The following was written by a friend, Karen Ocamb. She’s a brilliant journalist and posted this on her blog, LGBT POV, yesterday. It is presented here with her permission. There’s an old saying: “The Devil screams the loudest just before…
For Memorial Day, 2009: The Lesson of the Four Chaplains, 1943
by Michael D. Fox • • Comments Off
When I was child, my father, a World War II Navy veteran, taught me the story of the four chaplains of the USAT Dorchester. I thought of the four chaplains during the presidential election when I listened to former Secretary…
Shout the Good News! Rick Warren’s Conversion
by Michael D. Fox • • Comments Off
When accessing the political apologetics of evangelicals, it is tempting to deal with them on their own terms and question whether their contrition is perfect and sincere enough to remove the stain that their sins have placed on their souls.…
Prop 8: What’s Really at Stake for the California Supreme Court
by Michael D. Fox • • 2 Comments
The primary legal issue at tomorrow’s hearing before the California Supreme Court on the same sex marriage Prop 8 case is the narrow and extremely arcane question whether Prop 8 is an amendment to the state constitution or a revision of the state constitution. But appellate cases – and especially high profile and controversial appellate cases — are rarely decided on such narrow and arcane questions of law, even though lawyers and judges must pretend that they are. What’s really at stake in the Prop 8 case – and what will probably be the real deciding factor in the California Supreme Court’s decision – is the power and prestige of the California Supreme Court itself.
“In God we Trust” is making a come back in more than one City Council Meeting
by Heather Pritchard • • 33 Comments
It looks like there is another push for the phrase “In God We Trust” but this time it’s in Huntington Beach. Gila wrote about the previous attempt by Westminster to have the phrase to be on display at the School…
