GENDER EXTREMISM

There’s a new term today: gender extremism. This is an ideology that teaches that human beings can change their gender at will and that society must agree with a person’s extreme choices. The conflict is over forcing the rest of society to agree and accommodate an...

SHOULD THE BIBLE BE TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

In 2017, a bill passed the legislature that allowed teaching the Bible as an elective course. It’s been argued that the Bible is the single most influential book upon Western civilization. And in order for young people to understand our foundations, they must...

Politics isn’t Everything

French philosopher Jacques Ellul warned about making everything political. He called this the “political illusion”—the belief that most of our problems are political and therefore require political solutions. Truth is, not everything is political, nor does it have a...

SUGGESTIONS FOR A BETTER NEW YEAR

The beginning of a New Year is a great time to take inventory on the last year and ask yourself how you can make the upcoming year even better. Here are a few suggestions: Love more. Complain less. Don't blame but rather ask: "how can I help?" or "what can I do?"...

Resolution Follow Through

If you're like nearly half of America you'll make some kind of New Year resolution. Maybe you've resolved to eat better, exercise more or spend more time with family. Whatever they might be, we all want to do better in the new year. The ever-witty G.K. Chesterton,...

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

Have you made a New Year's resolution yet? Popular resolutions involve personal development, eating better and exercising more. How about working on spiritual growth? Why not work on practicing the Golden Rule—treating others as you'd like to be treated. How about...

YEAR IN REVIEW

The biggest news story of 2019 was the impeachment of President Donald Trump. It was only the third time it’s happened in US History.  Another major story was the Mueller Report which vindicated the President of occluding with Russia for political gain in 2016.  The...

Controversial Pardons

Outgoing Gov. Matt Bevin issued over 400 pardons and sentence commutations in one of his last acts while in office. A few of the pardons have created a stir. He pardoned a Hopkinsville man for violent sexual assault of a 15-year old. A man on death row was pardoned...

They is the Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year

The word "they" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. According to Merriam-Webster's website, lookups for the word "they" increased by 313 percent in 2019. So why all the interest in a simple pronoun? The answer is that "they" is the preferred pronoun for people who...

Christmas Day

Seven hundred years before the birth of Christ, the prophet Isaiah prophesied about the coming Messiah. In chapter 9 of the book of Isaiah it says "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light...

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