“Just preach the Gospel!” I hear this all the time from professing Christians who dislike our Christian newspaper because they say it is too “political.” “What do you mean, by ‘political?’” I ask. “Well for one thing, why don’t you lay off on all this ‘ProLife’ stuff? We’re tired of hearing about it. We all know about abortion but we can’t win this one. We just have to accept that it’s a legal medical procedure and a fact of life. I know you don’t like it and I know you feel really strongly about this, Rob, but it’s just not that big of a deal.” This was what I was told by a professing Christian recently, who told me they were not renewing their subscription to our newspaper this year — and the reason they gave was because they were tired of all the articles we publish that they deem as being “too […]
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Christmas is not Pagan or ‘Holiday’
Each year around this time, in Facebook posts and elsewhere, we are certain to be lectured by well-meaning Christians on the “sinfulness” of celebrating Christmas. Their arguments can be persuasive. “In the Bible, God never told us to celebrate Christmas,” they say. “Christmas has its roots in paganism,” they say.
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Recent American Clarion Articles
2017 South Dakota Second Amdt Scorecard
South Dakota Citizens for Liberty recently released their Second Amendment scorecard, scoring the 2017 South Dakota legislature on Second Amendment
In God We Trust Revisited: The Peculiar Case of Former NJ Congressman Scott Garrett
Christian liberty sacrificed at the altar of greed, the tragic tale in which corporate America defines a new arbitrary moral code. Another fairly recent and notable example of our political system run amuck occurred when alleged ‘social extremist,’ Scott Garrett, became a surprising casualty of
Creating War While Leading Through Opposition!
There is less than 21% approval rating for the American media. The reason is that people in this country understand that it is nothing more than fake and contrived news! Yet, they remain in the present, continuing to lie and to further their agenda by promulgating propaganda, as well as driving
When Sanity is the New Anarchy
I find myself in a strange political place. One in which I vehemently reject the secular status quo establishment, but scoff at the politically correct progressive push toward a dehumanized socialist
The Quest of Tech Billionaires for Immortality
It is instructive to see what someone does who achieves great wealth and great power. What do they focus on personally, what do they use their resources to accomplish, what is most important to
A Berkeley professor who understands his job
What is Alan Ross’s secret? His “new” model restores the university to what it is supposed to be and once was: about learning, not politics. Students take a final exam that tests what they have learned from the wide variety of ideas they have heard in the course of the semester, which determines
Our Government Depends on the Resurrection
Our nation’s framers believed freedom was impossible without virtue and that mankind did not possess virtue by themselves. They also understood, in the words of John Adams, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any
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