With less than four weeks until the election, we can all anticipate a steady diet of political ads trying to draw our attention toward some issues and away from others, depending, of course, on what politicians judge to be most advantageous to their cause. Given that dynamic, I’d like to offer brief reflections on a few specific issues Christian voters should pay special attention to as they prepare to cast their vote.
Read MoreIt will come as no surprise to anyone that our State and nation are, once again, on the brink of a very consequential election. As we have in recent years, the Public Policy Committee of our Minnesota Districts has endeavored to provide a resource that will give our members guidance on how best to reflect the Biblical and ecclesial perspective on various public policy issues.
Read MoreThis is a call to action directed specifically to pastors, though it deals with a topic of great importance for all Christians.
In a move aimed at further marginalizing and significantly weakening the nuclear family and the Church, some members of Congress are aggressively pushing a piece of legislation erroneously called the “Respect for Marriage Act”.”
Read MoreAs we near the end of August, our attention naturally shifts from the leisure activities of summer to the more structured activities of the Fall and beyond. Education is surely one of these.
No doubt you are aware of the great turmoil being experienced within the educational sphere.
“Protected in law and cared for in life” … with that simple phrasing, Father Richard John Neuhaus once articulated the ultimate goals of the pro-life movement. It seems to me that this is an articulation worth recalling as we try to grasp where we – those of us who support the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death - now stand in the light of the Supreme Court’s recent “Dobbs decision.”
Read MoreWe all know polls can be deceiving; they can just as easily be used to distort reality as to clarify it. And so, we’re rightly cautious about reading too much into polls in general and any one poll in particular. But sometimes there are polling results that are simply too compelling … too important … to be ignored.
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