We’re living in a golden age of communication. The world wide web, email, texting, cell phones, laptops, satellites, etc. have all combined to improve the world quite a bit. People can stay in touch with friends and loved ones half way around the world, they can research or disseminate scientific, mathematical, or artistic [...]

God blesses his children with success and prosperity. If I am more Christlike, I will be both more prosperous and successful. If the United States is more of a Christian nation (by which I mean it operates under increasingly Christ-like principals not that it contains more Christians), then that will lead directly to [...]

I was recently forwarded a sermon by the late Dr. D. James Kennedy, a mega-church pastor (Coral Ridge Ministries) and syndicated televangelist. The sermon, “Christianity and the Federal Deficit” laid out pretty succinctly the basic arch-conservative argument against liberal fiscal policies, and phrases it in quasi-Biblical terms to boot. I will note that [...]

I just ran across this post on a washingtonpost.com blog. The author, a prominent Jewish Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, argues that the Pew Forum survey on religion overestimates the number of atheists in the United States (they estimate about 1.6% of Americans). Rabbi Steinsaltz argues that “true atheists” have two rare qualities: 1) an [...]

Humility. Temperance. Stewardship. Modesty. These are all good Christian values. They are good conservative values as well. Jesus taught them (as have most of the world’s great religious leaders of all faiths). In most cases, our parents and grandparents taught them as well. Christians, and I think [...]

I’ve been looking up some demographic data today, and ran across the Pew Forum survey. In particular, they have detailed information on the religious breakdown of the country, as a whole and broken down by states. I found some of this pretty surprising. For instance:

Mitt Romney gave his Mormon speech today. At least that’s how his campaign, aided and abetted by the media, have been spinning it. In reality, the speech is not nearly as controversial as it could have been, nor is it as revolutionary as some are calling it. It was just a campaign [...]

Ah Hanukkah, the festival of lights.  Many Christians are unaware of the significance of Hanukkah.  Allow me to enlighten you: there is none.
Hanukkah is the celebration of a victory in a minor battle, in a minor war, that the Jews eventually lost.  If I were to list the top dozen Jewish holidays in order of [...]

The New York Times published a story this weekend about several evangelical churches that are using the new Halo 3 video game to bring youths and young adults into church.  Halo 3 is poised to be the top video game released this year, and possibly this decade.  It is also an incredibly violent first-person shooter, [...]

Six Supreme Court decisions this week. All of them (but one) were decided 5-4. In my mind, the court got about half of them right… the problem is that the ones they got wrong were real doozies. Here are the cases, from best to worst (in my opinion):