So Dale Gillis (Christianity vs. Rapturism, March 3) has concluded that since some so-called "Rapturists" are reading "The Secrets of Enoch" (which almost no one considers authoritative), all belief in the Rapture is bogus. Does anyone else see a rending of the laws of logic here? It matters little that a trifling handful of so-called Rapturists (who believe that Jesus will one day remove his church from the Earth before cleansing and preparing it for his return to rule and reign) are wacky in other areas. That doesn't cancel the orthodoxy of a belief they rightly maintain in another. Indeed, a huge component of biblical Christianity has long been convinced that passages such as 1 Thes' 4:15-17 speak clearly of a gathering of God's people, dead and alive, out of the world to be "with the Lord" prior to the cataclysmic judgments of the Tribulation. The Apostle Paul believed this, and he wrote long before 1950. His followers don't typically read "The Secrets of Enoch." Nor do they deserve a tarring with Mr. Gillis' broad brush. ...more

March 10, 2009

Members and guests of Christian Business Connections met for a Brandon Prayer Breakfast on June 9 at Center Place Fine Arts and Civic Association. ...more

June 21, 2008

If you ask me, cosmologists' new "Big Brain Theory" is proof positive that they've lost theirs. ...more

January 18, 2008

Woody Allen said: "We all share basic truths, the only difference is our ability to distort them." First, America wasn't exactly the happiest nation in the world during the post Civil War era. While the North may have been exuberant, the South was destroyed and demoralized. The Reconstruction period did little to lessen hatred by those recently conquered and, northern carpet baggers and scalawags did little to help the situation. Unfortunately, an equitable amalgamation of America's blacks presented a difficult task for both sides with problems lasting until the 1960s. Many black leaders say they still exist today. "Freedom and Prosperity" didn't come for a long time after the Civil War. We all know that the Ayn Rand Institute cares very little for religion. Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism rules out religion and anything that requires faith. Reason, purpose and self-esteem are her values for man to lead a successful life. Every man is an end to himself and exists only for his own sake. ...more

December 23, 2007