For years, committed Christians such as myself have felt increasingly helpless in the midst of America’s shifting political landscape. We have watched political leaders from both sides of the aisle behave like children fighting over backyard toys, and thanks to social media, have witnessed relentless public square bullying intended to quiet traditional religious belief…
I’ve recently found myself tongue-tied and astonished. Astonished to see women rallying together in the name of “femininity” or “womanhood” but intentionally distorting the very nature of that name. Yes, I’ve been astonished to watch celebrities such as Meryl Streep, Madonna, and Ashley Judd admonish leaders they believe obstruct the beauty and value of…
Today was supposed to be a great day to illuminate the GOP’s pro-life platform. With pro-life Americans traveling across the country to join in the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on the anniversary of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives was simultaneously supposed to vote on H.R.…
Phil Robertson recently made headlines with a sermon that bemoaned American culture as a “cesspool of politically correct crap.” With mainstream coverage of imminent (and controversial) topics such as same-sex marriage, abortion, race relations, and radical Islam becoming increasingly one-sided due to liberal demands for “political correctness,” conservatives such as Robertson use the term…
When America’s immigration crisis came to a boil, I admit I was instinctively a glass-half-empty kind of girl. I read newspaper reports, social media analysis, and watched direct interviews with public officials on the front lines and, along with many Americans, felt the fear and anxiety that surfaces when one hears about the possibility…
Last Wednesday ABC’s television series Modern Family received the International Television Audience Award for Comedy at the 54th Monte-Carlo TV Festival, indicating that it has among the highest ratings worldwide. Anyone who has seen the show knows its story line centers upon three couples—one traditionally married, one divorced and remarried, and one homosexual. With…
Note to reader: Let’s just say I’ve been reading C.S. Lewis’ The Screw Tape Letters and got inspired … Letter 1: Dear Wormwood, Your last letter sounded pessimistic about the Patient, so Screwtape asked that I write. I know how much you despise assignments to the female gender (I admit they can be stubborn…
“The month of December does not just belong to religion or Christianity.” Those were the words of Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation—the organization responsible for erecting the letter A next to the nativity scene and Menorah in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza this Christmas. Even though the Plaza’s…
I had an unexpected encounter with a wasp in my shower yesterday morning. The ugly rascal somehow made his way into my loofa, so when I went to use said loofa, I got a painful surprise. Right on my belly. I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced a wasp sting (it was my first),…
“But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” (2 Cor 3:18) Sanctification is something that has been on my mind lately, probably because I’ve been undergoing it on…
After learning the final 2012 Presidential Election results, I was faced with the uneasy feeling of an impending game change. It was not the game change you’d expect, though. Yes, the election indicates there is a change in American culture happen…
If anyone had asked me to express my thoughts on reproductive rights in this country thirty years ago, I would have pulled the Twizzler from my mouth, adjusted my knee socks, and asked through a toothless sneer for the question to be repeated. Or …