Posts by Kevin Schaal
Separation is Not Always the Answer
Separation is not always the answer. I know that statement seems contradictory to the fundamentalist ideal, but it is really not. Remaining in fellowship with people with whom we disagree and knowing how to engage in a good controversial debate has been essential to our faith and will be in the future. If our habit…
Read MoreWe Hold These Truths: Defending Liberty in a Perilous Age – AlbertMohler.com
The Fist Amendment will not save us, but it is up to us in many ways to save the First Amendment. The sacred freedoms we cherish secure our right to worship God in spirit and truth, again, to teach and tell the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and finally to teach the…
Read MoreThe Decline of American Motherhood – The Atlantic
As the American population grows, so does the number of American moms. But, more than a century after Mother’s Day became an official holiday, even as that number increases, the share of the American population who are mothers is at the lowest point it’s been in a quarter century.It’s frequently noted that fertility rates are…
Read MoreWould Bathsheba Have Joined the #MeToo Movement?
They keep falling like flies–even the public figures who have most supported the #MeToo movement (Growing list). These situations are not new to the modern era and there are many angles that need to be discussed. However, I think it is appropriate to sound a word of warning to men, especially Christian men, in positions…
Read More#MeToo: Fallout from the Sexual Revolution – American Greatness
Repudiating the West’s Dominant EthicSecond, Feminist Woman’s position on sexual morality is as self-contradictory as her position on women.Classical Marxists once equated traditional Christian sexual morality with a form of “bourgeois” repression. Feminist Woman, exposing unmistakably her Leftist pedigree, regards the Christian sexual ethic as an instrument of misogynistic, “heteronormative” oppression. Thus, the sexual revolution…
Read MoreI Loved You Enough
I know it’s not a religious piece, but it does reflect the thinking of much of the society in which I grew up. Erma Bombeck wrote this in her book, If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I in the Pits (1985). My mother loved reading Erma Bombeck when I was growing up.…
Read MoreDid Drinking Give Me Breast Cancer? – Mother Jones
I quickly discovered that way back in 1988, the World Health Organization declared alcohol a Group 1 carcinogen, meaning that it’s been proved to cause cancer. There is no known safe dosage in humans, according to the WHO. Alcohol causes at least seven types of cancer, but it kills more women from breast cancer than…
Read More‘Nones’ get their first congressional caucus – RNS
(RNS) — Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and organizations promoting atheism, agnosticism and humanism announced the creation this week of the first Congressional Freethought Caucus.The new caucus comes as the religious “nones” — those who claim no religious affiliation — jumped from about 16 percent of the U.S. population in 2007 to nearly 23…
Read MoreThe Powerful Headwinds Confronting Religious Freedom – Law & Liberty
The increasing religious polarization suggests that, unlike in the past, traditional believers cannot count on a widespread, if thin, cultural sympathy for their commitments. A large and growing percentage of Americans has no experience of traditional religion—and, to the extent it has had such experience, rejects it. Disagreements and misunderstandings are likely to be amplified…
Read MoreCalifornia Bill Banning Biblical Views On Sexuality Forces Christian Group To Cancel L.A. Conference | Daily Wire
Summit Student Conferences is a 12-day Christian mentoring program based out of Manitou Springs, Colorado, that has a special course designed to engage high school and college-aged students with faith and principles. The bill seeks to insert new statutes into the state’s Business and Professions Code affecting organizations “offering to engage in, or engaging in…
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