The right of revolution is metaphysical, not existential (and none may logically claim such a right who have not a metaphysics on which to found their case). —Clarence B. Carson, The Rebirth of Liberty (1976) The War for Independence The ...
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The Meaning Of Fatherhood
Fatherhood has been gutted of honor and respect until the most common portrayal of an American father is the spineless, bumbling idiot of television’s situation comedies.
Read More »Crispus Attucks: Revolutionary Hero Before the War Even Began
Six years before the Declaration of Independence officially documented the beginning of the American Revolution, the city of Boston had already had enough of the presence of British troops. On the evening of March 5, 1770 a crowd of people ...
Read More »An Antidote For American’s Culture Of Death
Dust in the wind/All we are is dust in the wind. —Kansas (1977) When Life is God For Eastern pantheism, all is One. All life is shared life. All apparent diversity is the manifestation of an underlying cosmic unity. Because ...
Read More »A Legacy of Unpretentious Living
Robert and Adrienne Westerbeck lived in the same modest home in an unassuming neighborhood of Pasadena, California for over half a century. Never blessed with children, Robert was a retired engineer and Addie a retired music teacher until their deaths. ...
Read More »The Sabbath And Freedom
Both the Jews and early Christians regarded the Sabbath as a type or symbol of the world to come. —William Trollpe, Analecta Theologica (1842) The Origin of the Sabbath Unlike the day, the month, and the year, the seven-day week ...
Read More »It’s The End Times… All Over… Again
“The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.” Jim Morrison “I confess my error and acknowledge my disappointment, yet I still believe that the day of the Lord is near.” —William Miller, leader of the Adventist movement (1844) The ...
Read More »Magic and the All-Powerful Sorcerer State
At the sound of the true name, the powers of the god stood ready to perform the invoker’s bidding. —Kurt Seligmann, Magic, Supernaturalism, and Religion (1948) Exorcism in Jesus’ Name In the Book of Acts, we learn of some itinerant ...
Read More »The Myth of the Myth of America’s Foundations
In a recent article in the Huffington Post, Kenneth C. Davis seeks to set the record straight about the Judeo/Christian foundations of the Unites States of America. A word of caution before proceeding: HuffPo isn’t exactly a bastion of unbiased ...
Read More »How Images Produce Tyranny
We evolve into the images we carry in our minds. We become what we see. —Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1978) In studying the Bible as a young man, I found intimations of the idea that ...
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