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Make no mistake, this Cold Civil War has been, is, and will be about you and me.  If we have but one enemy in this struggle, Satan, then the bullseye is squarely on our backs.  The way we choose to organize ourselves, elect our representatives, and formulate the public policy issues that divide us, have all been sidebars to the real...

I don’t pretend to suggest that this will be the only answer to how the Church must unify before the nation unites.  And yet, from a thirty-thousand-foot view of the situation, my sense is that if the Church writ large is to unite and confront the world’s cultures and ours in this American Cold Civil War, around what ideas and constructs...

How’s the thickness of your skin coming along? In my last post the week before the Inaugural, I wrote that the Cold Civil War was upon us with all of its skirmishes and lies handed out as truth.  In most wars, truth is the first casualty, but in this one, controlling the truth is the prize.  I don’t think I’ve ever lived at a time when...

If Washington Post Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein is correct, we are not one nation with two polar opposing viewpoints.  We are already two Americas in the middle of what he refers to as a “Cold Civil War.”  Cold wars see “hot” skirmishes here and there.  The riots in Portland, Seattle and other blue cities this summer, as...

Most every post I’ve read during this Christmas season has observed how “crazy” the year has been.  How disastrous was the 2020 election.  How divided we are as a people.  Science vs. faith.  Justice vs. mercy.  Where is the hope this Christmas?  It’s not difficult.  When you try to live as if there is no God, and you labor and sweat and...

(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) “I don’t really care about where I’ve come from or, after this life, where I’m going,” the driver emphasized. He’d said it before and so was a little miffed that he was having to say it again.  The two of them had commuted daily to work for an hour each way on the interstate. ...

(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) The undergrad wanted more clarification on a point that the Professor had made in class.  He decided to go up to the prof’s office even without an appointment.  The answer shouldn’t take long anyway. He knocked on the door.  “Yes,” the professor replied. “Sir, it’s Joe...

(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) That evening the fifth-grade Bible Study class took up the subject of faith . . . and hope.  Fifth-graders.  The teacher, Jim, drew a circle on the board, placed an “X” in the center, and then explained that this was that evening’s Bible verse.  He explained to the class...

(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) Once the Urban elites had seized power in the inner cities, it had become unsafe for anyone to enter the occupied zones.  There was a different law there and it was one that knew no boundaries.  These so-called autonomous zones ruled by “self-law.”  If you carried a bull-horn, you were...

(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) The social divide between the rural and urban communities had grown so wide that no one could see their way clear to conceptualize a bridge between them, much less build it.  And yet, no one wanted that bridge more than him. The leaders of the rural communities had only wanted to...