The White House has announced plans to expand its Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. In an address to the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama said the office would reach out to nonprofit organizations and "help them determine how to make a bigger...
opinion by FMeekins | 3 wks ago 82 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
opinion by FMeekins | 20 wks ago 59 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
opinion by FMeekins | 22 wks ago 68 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
opinion by FMeekins | 23 wks ago 48 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
opinion by FMeekins | 28 wks ago 40 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The church was instituted by God in part to stand as a defensive bulwark to protect against erroneous doctrine and spiritually damaging heresies from contaminating the minds of believers and thus to an extent soften the blow of a continually degrading culture. However,...
opinion by FMeekins | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago 75 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Minority activists and other guiltmongers often whine that 11 am Sunday morning is often the most segregated hour of the week. I wonder what the we-are-all-one-big family agitators have to say about the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, which bills itself as...
created by FMeekins | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 101 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
As the United States edges ever closer to tyranny with freedom dieing a little more each year with the passage of new laws, the handing down of judicial rulings, and the promulgation of executive orders, it is assumed by increasing numbers that it is the role of government to...
created by FMeekins | 1 year ago 70 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
At one point in her career, Oprah Winfrey was pretty much seen as a harmless crank as to the casual viewer catching the show in passing assumed that the program dealt primarily with her seesawiing weight and whether or not her shackup might secretly prefer to be paid in...
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Just because some white liberals are going out of their way to vote for Barack Obama for no other reason than that he happens to be half-black, some within the Evangelical leadership are once again beating on their drums about congregations being too split along racial and...
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During the 1980’s, Phil Donahue use to get on his show and wring his hands about how guilty he felt for being an American while much of the world languished in poverty and despair. While Donahue was noted for being an avowed secularist, similar tactics are often...
created by FMeekins | 1 year ago 105 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
One of mankind’s fondest dreams is no doubt to live upon this earth in vitality and youth beyond the paltry 75 to 90-odd years the healthiest among us get to enjoy. As such, one of contemporary fantasy’s...
created by FMeekins | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 239 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment