The Famished Patriot

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We 21st century American Christians are, on the whole, woefully ill-equipped when it comes to understanding things like inalienable/unalienable rights. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that we have not been trained in these areas at all, or at least if we have, such training has not come from our churches. There is a […]

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, […]

We are beginning the END of this series, The Patriot, with a look at some ways we can be working to restore authentic American patriotism. I concluded my last blog post with a thought about intentionality. I wrote that America hating is learned. So is patriotism. In the years since my youth—the ’50’s and ’60’s—the […]

“… this is an activist court that is well on its way to recrafting constitutional law in its image.” E.J. Dionne, Jr. As I noted in my previous blog post, I have decided to republish some material from my old Kingdom>>Church>>Culture blog while I am in the process of developing a series of articles titled […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1980-1983 In the summer of my seventeenth year—1969—I traveled throughout the Midwest as the youngest member of a Lutheran Youth Encounter summer mission team. Along our route, we spent several weeks ministering to youth in inner city Chicago. One evening, our hosts treated us to Chicago Style Pizza at […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1986-1987 In 1986 I met a man named Alan Snyder. Like me, Dr. Snyder possessed a love of American history and a passion for the Biblical principles which support our Constitution and our traditional American way of life. At the time, Dr. Snyder was a professor at George Mason […]