by Colin Harris | Jan 6, 2023 | Opinion
An ominous warning that a “war on Christmas” was being waged by those who wanted to remove the distinctive Christian focus of the holiday accompanied our annual holiday season not long ago. The phrase seems to have come from John Gibson 2006’s book The War on...
by Starlette Thomas | Dec 12, 2022 | Opinion
He says, “Christmas.” She says, “Xmas.” Some Christians disagree on how an invitation to celebrate Jesus’ birth should read. It reveals how little some of us know about early Christian symbols and traditions. In 1977, New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. said in...
by Starlette Thomas | Nov 28, 2022 | Opinion
Four weeks to nest before the birth of Jesus, Advent also doubles as a time of war – the so-called “war on Christmas,” to be specific. If you say, “Happy holidays” and not “Merry Christmas,” then we know whose side you’re on. What fuels the decades-long conspiracy...
by Michael Chancellor | Jun 9, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Franklin Graham offered his assessment last week regarding the cause of mass shootings in the U.S. “America has abandoned God, and taken God out of the classroom,” he said in a Facebook post. “The more we turn our backs on God and His Word, the more problems we have...
by Colin Harris | Feb 7, 2022 | Opinion
Among the colloquial expressions that I remember from my background is a response to some assertion of an idea or opinion – “I reckon.” Most of the time, as I recall, its meaning was something along the line of “I agree,” perhaps with a bit more nuance: “I hear what...
