Tag Archives: family
Accomplices to Exploitation
Stories of children reported to be victims of sexual exploitation are so familiar these days that they have become little more than background noise in the daily news feed. Even our legislators don’t give this exploitation a second thought. At least, that’s the impression I get from a review of HB 5239.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life
Tagged abuse, Brian Crowder, Candace Gingrich, child abuse, child exploitation, children, CPS, DCFS, family, HB 5239, Kelly Cassidy, Little Village High School, Parental Notification Act, Parents
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Christian, Do Your Duty: Vote!
Every American citizen has, among other things, the right and responsibility to vote. If too many fail to take this responsibility seriously, it allows for a few, with bad intentions, to transform the state into an oligarchy or dictatorship!
Posted in Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, children, citizen, Culture, duty, elections, family, John Wycliffe, Marriage, Ten Commandments, U.S. Constitution, Voting
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Online Sports Gambling – Church Leaders Beware!
Pete Rose was the all-time hit leader in Major League Baseball. However, he was gambling on the sport while playing. In the wake of the Pete Rose gambling controversy, he was banned from baseball on August 24, 1989.
Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions, Faith, Gambling, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged addictions, baseball, church, counseling, family, football, gambling, George H. W. Bush, Katherine Sayre, Kavita Fischer, MLB, Online Sports Gambling – Church Leaders Beware!, PAPSA, Pete Rose, sports, sports gambling
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The Importance of Being Married. Some Thoughts About Love on Valentine’s Day
If there is one thing that our cultural leaders are not very earnest about anymore, it is marriage. There is much ado made about dating and the wedding ceremony itself, but how to succeed in marriage itself is given little attention. Statistics indicate that approximately half of marriages end in divorce. This is more than scandalous, it is destructive to the nation and dreadfully harmful to children, to say nothing about how God vies such things!
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged children, Christ, dating, family, love, Marriage, men, Valentine's Day, women
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Not An Obstacle, But A Heritage
We are expecting our third child, due to join us in about a month. Life is full, a little stressful, often mundane, and infinitely more purposeful and joyful than it would be without our kids. I’m tired a lot of the time, but that’s a small price to pay in exchange for my daughter’s unbelievable sense of humor, the weight of my son on my chest when he snuggles after his nap, and the rolls and kicks I feel in my abdomen as I write.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life
Tagged children, Christianity, dink, family, Fatherhood, feminism, heritage, motherhood, Not an Obstacle but a Heritage, parenthood
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“Illinois is Failing Children of Color?”
A recent news story by Chicago’s WGN9 is titled “Illinois is Failing Children of Color.” It examines “Race for Results” –a report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation which found that children of color face several “inequities” in Illinois.
Posted in Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged children, family, government, Illinois, Jack Brewer, Marriage, NFL, Tony Dungy
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Local Focus
Why are local elections so uninteresting to voters? Local elections in Illinois generally draw about 16% of registered voters. This is compared to the average turnout over the last 20 years for presidential elections in Illinois of 63% and the average turnout in the off-year elections of 44%.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Sexuality
Tagged ALA, children, Culture, election, family, Gender Queer, Illinois, Lawn Boy, libraries, local election, Lolita, Presidential election, This Book is Gay, Vladimir Nabokov
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When Compassion is Fatal
Indi Gregory was a British eight-month-old who died last month after her parents were denied the right to take her to Italy for care, as well as the option to bring her home to die. Sadly, she is only the most recent in an unfortunate string of widely publicized cases of patients in the UK for whom parental rights were overridden or removed “in the best interests of the child.” Each of these cases ended in the death of children.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Abortion, children, family, Indi Gregory, John Stonestreet, Parents, Terri Schiavo
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The Pastor
You may or may not know that October is “Pastor Appreciation Month.” Because I have pastored for thirty years, I am hesitant to write on this topic, but I also believe that it is an important issue. A number of surveys have revealed that there is a significant attrition occurring within the ranks of pastors which threatens the future of churches across the United States. These studies show that in recent years over fifty percent of the men who enter the pastorate drop out before achieving ten years of service.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged children, church, family, Marriage, Pastor Appreciation Month, Pastors
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