Rick Plasterer

The recent General Assembly’s actions indicate that recently contentious issues have been resolved in favor of Biblical belief and practice. The church now has a good self-understanding.

Training children in the Christian faith in the expectation that they will likely share one’s faith as an adult has become a challenge for parents today.

Research shows that the 'number one predictor' of happiness is actually a good marriage, not money or career.

In pressing for the basic freedoms of our constitution in other countries, we must recognize that we are involving ourselves in their affairs and should restrict ourselves to the freedoms of classical liberalism as outlined in the Bill of Rights, particularly its first freedom, freedom of religion.

The autocratic government of President Paul Kagame presents these actions as impartial applications of the law in the interest of health and safety. It is evident that it is aimed the closure of poorer, independent (largely Pentecostal and start-up) churches, one of the last remaining areas of spontaneous words and activity beyond state control.

High profile lawsuits have attacked religious liberty in recent years, but the federal bureaucracy is another line of attack. No particular arrangement of laws and institutions will guarantee religious liberty but overturning the Chevron decision will help.

People today are conditioned to be guided by feelings rather than logic ... [but] we need [logic] to reason about anything.

Christians must resist when they see evil perpetrated in the world, not merely when their own interests are directly affected.

Christians should order their lives according to the precepts of Scripture, not according to the wisdom of a secular state.

There is in our time no recognized systematic body of moral teaching that can be presented as moral knowledge by the institutions of Western society.