Cross Purposes

Last Sunday was Pentecost. The younger kids all came into the sanctuary waving red and orange streamers, and making a "whooshing"...

Unless God intervenes, the Republicans are set to nominate Mitt Romney for President. He's not "conservative" enough for t...

Intensive prayer and continuous meditation in scripture changes us. It sets us at complete variance with the mind that is in the world. It...

I have no particular feelings toward Rick Santorum. Indeed, the current emphasis on PERSONALITIES (rather than issues and ideas) is probabl...

The problem for those who want to call themselves "conservative Christians" is that they claim a factional Christianity. And that...

Can't remember exactly when I first heard of abortion, and was forced to think about what that is. It was probably in the late '60s...

We all know human organizations work better by being smaller and more efficient. But we also know that in partisans' mouths "smal...

The human ideas on which communism operates are false and evil. Our scriptural faith is that evil will NOT triumph. Where then is the ...

I've been part of a spirited discussion on a Christian site about illegal aliens. People mostly repeated Fox News anecdotes, and mouthed...

Last year Oregon citizens voted in a state-wide referendum to raise state taxes for those making over $250,000 a year. Kevin Looper, on...