by Richard Schweissing | Jul 30, 2019 | Opinion
Already the fever of the 2020 U.S. presidential election is heating up. As Christians, we must think about what that means for us and where our responsibility lies. First, it’s important that we vote and we do it as informed citizens. So much misinformation is being...
by Richard Schweissing | Aug 2, 2018 | Opinion
Have Christians in the United States forgotten our historic commitment to taking the whole gospel to the whole world? More than 200 years ago, Christians in the U.S. sent their first missionary to Burma to share the gospel. Since then, missionaries have been sent to...
by Richard Schweissing | Feb 6, 2018 | Opinion
I come from a family of refugees. My grandfather fled Germany in pre-World War I to escape the political oppression of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany. The family came after the war, sponsored by my grandfather and after losing a younger brother to malnutrition. My...
by Richard Schweissing | Jan 18, 2018 | Opinion
I teach citizenship classes. One of those classes focuses entirely on rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens. In my class, I especially emphasize responsibilities. I point out that the responsibility to use our rights for such things as free speech, voting and...
