Generation Of Christian Leaders Riding Into Sunset Spark Reevaluation

By Frederick Meekins | 07/01/09

With the passing of Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy along with the dissolution of the Center for Reclaiming America and the Center for Christian Statesmanship, the issue has arisen once again as to whether or not conservative Evangelicals should participate in political activity. Since things have not gotten any better and if anything continued their downward spiral since the advent of the contemporary conservative Evangelical movement... read more »

Should The Government Pay Students Not To Fornicate?

By Frederick Meekins | 06/24/09

A state-sponsored pregnancy prevention program at the University of North Carolina is paying girls $1.00 a day not to get pregnant. Since it takes two to make a baby, shouldn't young men be getting this WELFARE also? If it was reversed, wouldn't NOW nags be crying discrimination? Some will argue there really isn't anyway to prove boys are complying with the program. But the same is true with girls up until the time they either have the baby... read more »

Minding The Times: An Exposition On Postmodernism, Part 2

By Frederick Meekins | 06/09/09

  The human mind and spirit cannot endure for very long the chaotic vacillation of such lawlessness before the individual eventually cries out for answers to the extremes of licentiousness and total control. Throughout much of the Modern Era, the Christian apologist could appeal to a shared respect for historic and scientific fact common to both Christianity and commonsense realism. Today, the Christian must first reestablish why anyone... read more »

Minding The Times: An Exposition On Postmodernism, Part 1

By Frederick Meekins | 05/27/09

One might say the future is here --- and we might want to send it back for a refund. Having waited years and wondering at times whether mankind would even survive to see the day, the world now finds itself on the other side of a new millennium. In some ways, it is everything optimistic futurists dreamed of in terms of faster modes of transportation, improved forms of medicine and almost instantaneous global communication. However, one would... read more »

Rotten Egg Presidency Co-opts Easter Celebration

By Frederick Meekins | 05/13/09

Some traditions should be so hallowed that they should not be sullied by political controversies or used as a vehicle to manipulate the participants into embracing perspectives and policies they might not otherwise be exposed to or willing to accept. As a celebration of profound cultural significance at one of America's most solemn and historic venues, the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House ought to be just such an... read more »

Obamaphiles Enjoy That Which They Would Deny You

By Frederick Meekins | 04/27/09

The Obama progeny are well into their studies at Sidwell Friends School. As their parents, Barack and Michelle have every right to enroll their daughters in the school they think best for their children. Ironically, this is one of the many prerogatives the President’s most enthusiastic supporters would frown upon should you, the average American, decide to exercise them. For decades now, liberals and secularists have argued that those... read more »