The Famished Patriot

On this Fourth of July, 2013, I am mourning the loss of my country. And I mourn for several reasons. 1. I mourn first and foremost that so many of my American countrymen have rejected the God whose merciful goodness secured liberty for so many generations in our land. 2. I mourn because those who […]

Every year, on the final Monday in May, Americans pause to honor all of those who “died while in the military service.” There is no greater gift one can give to his or her country. From the brave ones who fell from the first shots fired at Lexington-Concord, to the latest American casualty brought home […]

We are the patriots—the ones who have the heavy lifting to do. The mess in which we find ourselves today is of our own doing—well ours and our parents’ and our grandparents’. Few of us actually tended to our republic as Ben Franklin had admonished. We did not take our responsibilities for self-government very seriously, […]