Sex. Sex and sexuality is such a beautiful glorious gift. Like all good and glorious gifts on earth, the beauty, the glory and the good come with boundaries. Boundaries are given for the maximum benefit.
Why can’t everyone enjoy it all the time? Why can’t everyone run stop signs all the time to save time and be first? The answer to both has to do with benefit, boundaries and the sanctity and preservation of life–that’s why. Continue reading
The protection of rights of conscience articulated in West Virginia v. Barnette:
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
More here.
The first amendment to the Constitution of the United States is under attack. That could be said for other amendments/sections of the Constitution as well.
The guy on the left has rights, he is an American. However, he is using his corporate pulpit to squelch the rights of much smaller guys. Tim Cook along with other corporate bullies are undermining the meaning of the First Amendment. His interpretations are biased. He believes the 1st Amendment means: “free speech for me, but not for thee.” Continue reading
I am taking my queues from the Reflector, a Mississippi State University campus paper. 
The article’s author seems to think that Christians in American have Americanized Christianity.
My insight is that most every culture adapts the writings of the the Holy Bible to their culture. In some ways God through His Word encourages that. In fact, His Word was written over a period of hundreds of years and comes through people from several cultures and from several nations. Continue reading
Devin, the author of the article I am going to quote from below, believes that Christians 
in America are headed underground and to the catacombs. I am not so sure that will happen here but I don’t rule it out. Jesus’ followers are discriminated against broadly. Education is belligerent, government is belligerent sometimes, the courts can’t always be trusted and the culture is resistant or indifferent. So, Devin makes good points.
Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor at the University of Illinois, made the claim in a new anthology for math teachers, arguing that, “On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White…”
This woman has not met the Chinese, the Japanese, the Iranian, Arab nor the Indian people I know. Many are great at math! Math is colorless (and raceless)!
Full article here.
Too many Americans are dying deaths of despair, and their lack of a support system is a big part of the problem.
Princeton University’s Anne Case and Angus Deaton have coined the term “deaths of despair” to describe the epidemic of American opioid overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related fatalities. Put simply, Americans are killing themselves at a stunning rate. In 2016 drug overdoses claimed 64,000 lives, and, as the Social Capital Project report notes, “opioid overdose deaths alone accounted for nearly two-thirds of drug overdose deaths, and have surpassed the all-time peaks of annual deaths caused (individually) by car crashes, H.I.V., and guns.
Special Note: where is the conversation about black owners of black slaves in the American South? I am white and my ancestors may have come over as indentured servants. Not slaves but very close. This does not justify chattel slavery, please!
When George Washington’s memory has been deemed “unacceptable” to Americans, will America still exist?
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America: The Good and Not So Good 