Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials — the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium — have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. And the Millennials have very definite view about matters of faith. [Read More]
In the very near future most of us will be carrying around an electronic device that we will use to read books and magazines, listen to music, surf the Internet, pay bills online and a multitude of other things. Even pastors and Sunday school teachers will be using them as a reference for their notes, and people in the pews will be using them to read their Bibles and take notes on the message. [Read More]
Muslims have not beat the West on the battlefield, but they are thumping us in the ideological wars.
The New Criterion, said to be America’s leading review of the arts and intellectual life, has chronicled the recent saga of George Thomas Kurian, who was contracted by Wiley-Blackwell , the distinguished British academic publisher (Wiley and Sons in the U.S.), to produce a multi-volume Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. He completed the work with the help of nearly 400 contributors, but after it was printed and distributed, it was recalled to be “pulped” by Wiley-Blackwell. [Read More]
What happens when you try to board a flight with a concealed handgun? Author John Maxwell found out the hard way. Maxwell was simply trying to board a flight in Palm Beach, FL when he was arrested for having a concealed weapon in his briefcase.
No, it was not a comedy of errors, and Maxwell was arrested under Section 790.1, a felony of the third degree in Florida. Undoubtedly he will be hearing from the FBI soon, since trying to board a plane with a firearm is also a Federal offense. [Read More]
There is a growing trend of children celebrating the birthday of Theodor Geisel in schools, local libraries and churches, and it’s a good one. Geisel is better known as “Dr. Seuss,” of course, and is the author of such beloved books as, Green Eggs and Ham, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who! and the timeless classic, The Cat in the Hat.
Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904, the son of German immigrants. He attended Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church along with his parents and grandparents as a child, and was a life-long Lutheran. [Read More]