Breast Feeding in Public!

Careful Modesty!With our minds on the Nativity and the wonder of God-become-man, a recent article in Christianity Today raises an important question. Why is it that, in this hyper-sexualized culture, we are anxious about breast-feeding in church? Mary nursed the Son...

Don’t Assume the Gospel!

In Matt 16:5-11 Jesus warmed his disciple to “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.” The “leaven” that concerned him was the teaching of the Pharisees and Saducees. What was their teaching? It was religious pride, pride in their virtues. I...

Real Hate Crimes And How to Stop Them

In the last twenty years “hate crimes,” have become the great social evil. It has become a matter of “political correctness.” Anyone who objects to the normalization of homosexual behavior, for example, is guilty of a hate crime. Anyone who...

The Real Saint Nicholas

Saint NicholasThe fictional Santa Claus is a chimera that has morphed from a real person who actually lived in the fourth century, Saint Nicholas. A new post at Christianity Today asks the question “Was the Real Saint Nicholas better than Santa Claus?”  I...

The Scale of the Universe!

God is big, and we are small!Psalm 19 teaches us that the “heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” According to an amazing web page that you can access here entitled “The Scale of the Universe,” this is an...