The Famished Patriot

As of today, I have 856 Facebook friends. Of that number, probably 150 or so are folks I have never met in person but became friends with on Facebook through a mutually shared interest, because they are a friend of a friend, or a high school classmate which time and geography has long kept us […]

As we look towards November 6th—election day—many Christians are wrestling with a question. How should I cast my vote for president? On the one hand, we currently have a man in the White House, running for re-election, who promotes gay marriage, government-funded contraception and abortion, and who believes that “justice” is excessive taxing of the […]

Left vs. Right. Black vs. White. Republican vs. Democrat. The Haves and the Have Nots. The Blue States and the Red States. Pro Life vs. Pro Choice. The 1% and the 99%. We have sadly found so many ways to divide and compartmentalize ourselves, haven’t we? And yes, even the Church suffers the wounds of […]

Can this nation be healed? Can our deep cultural and racial divisions be reconciled? Can the great chasms separating us be bridged? I believe that they can. But only if the Church is first healed of her divisions. And that will require a serious reexamination of our view of history. Last Monday I wrote about […]

The image on the left was created by a friend of mine. It was made after a special request to graphically represent the ministry of reconciliation that my friend John Jenkins and I launched in the mid-1990’s. We called our group H.E.A.L. The acronym stands for Humility, Endurance, Affirmation, and Love. These are the character […]

Several days ago, when I sat down to assemble my thoughts on the theme of “The Government We Deserve,” I did not anticipate that my idea would become a short series of blog posts. Well it has … and here we are in the fourth installment. Unlike the other series I have written, I’m just […]

Be on the lookout for a new series … THE PATRIOT … COMING SOON! Below is an article I originally published on my old Kingdom>>Church>>Culture blog. The article was posted on July 7, 2008. Read on … ………… Every great, historic nation has had, at its core, an idea or a principle with which its […]

Be on the lookout for a new series … THE PATRIOT … COMING SOON! Below is an article I originally published on my old Kingdom>>Church>>Culture blog. The article was posted on June 7, 2008. Read on … ………… The Washington Times published an editorial today comparing the parking ticket record of foreign diplomats with the […]

Be on the lookout for a new series … THE PATRIOT … COMING SOON! Below is Part 2 of an article I originally published on my old Kingdom>>Church>>Culture blog. The article was posted on June 18, 2008. Read on … ………… The historic success of American culture rests largely upon its Judeo-Christian foundation. For generations, […]

Be on the lookout for a new series … THE PATRIOT … COMING SOON! Below is Part 1 of an article I originally published on my old Kingdom>>Church>>Culture blog. The article was posted on June 18, 2008. Read on … ………… America’s journey down the road toward multiculturalism leads to a cliff. Now before you […]