Articles for tag: Gun Control

February 11, 2017

By Chris Moon Imagine the following scenario: You are sitting in the bleachers at your child”s soccer game on a Saturday morning. It”s a beautiful day, and you strike up a conversation with another parent whom you have seen at several games. You find you have a lot of things in common””but not everything. When your new friend asks what you”ll be doing the following day, you casually explain that you”ll be at church in the morning. Then you remember your pastor”s encouragement, and you offer the invitation: “You are more than welcome to come with us. We could do

October 15, 2016

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square Politics & Government

Fear Not

By Jennifer Johnson I am angry about the state of our union. And I”m not alone. But anger isn”t the core problem. In January, the Esquire/NBC News “American Rage Survey” reported that half of Americans are angrier than they were a year ago. In February, BBC.com reported that 69 percent of Americans are either “very angry” or “somewhat angry” about “the way things are going” in the United States. As I write this, the day after the Orlando nightclub shooting, I”m sure the numbers are even higher. We are angry about climate change, about those who deny climate change exists,

December 22, 2015

Mark A. Taylor

Care & Counseling Grief & Suffering

We Do Not Suffer Alone

By Mark A. Taylor Death intrudes into thousands of lives every day. But to each individual losing someone close, death seems like a singular experience. I remember the comment of a good friend whose dad died decades ago. He returned to his job after several days grieving with his family and found everything there decidedly unchanged. “Everyone”s just doing what they usually do, working on their own tasks as if nothing has happened,” he said. Here he was, trying to cope with his life that had been upended. But everyone around him, it seemed, was getting along just fine. This

October 29, 2008

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square Politics & Government

Giving a Shrug About Politics

By Mark A. Taylor Someone close to me said late in September, “I know who I”m voting for in this presidential election, but I”m not sure why.” She was expressing the feeling of many Christians about this year”s election. They”re not too excited about it. And they”re not the only ones. Peggy Noonan asserted in The Wall Street Journal that, even among dedicated Democrats or Republicans, many wonder if their candidate is truly ready for the job. “I haven”t heard a single person say, “˜Yes, my guy is the answer,”” she wrote September 27. “A lot of shrugging is going

April 13, 2008

Christian Standard

Book Reviews Reviews

FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Little Things Mean a Lot

By LeRoy Lawson In his book Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow”s Big Changes (Twelve, 2007), Mark Penn argues that if you”re serious about trying to figure out where in the world we”re going, you have to look at the little things. Specifically, you need to check out 75 trends still too small to capture the headlines but big enough to reach the front page before long. I can”t list all of them here, but let me give you some samples. But before I do, here”s a pretty good motive for paying attention. “If Islamic terrorists were to convince even