Archive for March, 2008
« Previous EntriesDenigrating the Candidates
Monday, March 31st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are the sole survivors in the intense public scrutiny to vie for the role as the next president of the United States. En route, various media outlets have hailed one of those […]
Rapidly Changing Technology
Thursday, March 27th, 2008I continue to be amazed at the rapidly changing times in which we live. Technology is turning how we live and work upside down. TPE is trying with its variety of staff blogs and podcasts that tie in with the weekly periodical that has been published for 95 years.
A Pew Research Center study last […]
Remembering a Warrior Turned Missionary
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Jacob DeShazer died recently at the age of 95, finishing a life on earth that had been filled with the horrors of war as well as the blessedness of peace.
During World War II DeShazer served as a bombardier in the Doolittle raid over Japan in April 1942. Taken captive when forced to bail out of […]
Baseball Is Better Than Football
Monday, March 24th, 2008Ah, tis spring, the time of year baseball fans are rejuvenated. By May, some of our teams already will be out of the running for the playoffs.
Baseball always has been my favorite sport, and I suppose a lot of that has to do with my dad taking me to St. Louis as a boy to […]
Early Admission
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Less than 24 hours after being sworn in as New York governor to replace a governor disgraced in a federal prostitution investigation, the Empire State’s new chief executive has admitted to previously being involved in adultery with “a number of women.”
David A. Paterson’s revelation Tuesday at a news conference seemed eerily reminiscent of outgoing Gov. […]
Beware the Boycott
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008For two years I received an e-mail from American Family Association proclaiming its boycott of Ford Motor Co. to be a great success. This ministry typically cited the automotive giant’s huge quarterly losses, connecting that to customer dissatisfaction with Ford’s “promotion of the homosexual agenda.”
Last week AFA announced that it had called off the boycott […]
Society’s Moment of Truth?
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008If you want to see how far our culture has deteriorated in the past half century, many comparative benchmarks exist. I suggest an analogy of game shows.
What’s My Line? had good reason to stay on primetime television every week for 17 years, ending in 1967. Besides been interesting, good-natured, witty, and spontaneous, the live quiz […]
Power Is Fleeting
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008The swift demise of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is yet another lesson in humility for officeholders.
Yesterday, Spitzer was a powerful figure, less than two years after being elected to the widest gubernatorial landslide in the history of the Empire State. Today he can’t find a friend, even in his own party.
The revelation that federal […]
Abortion’s Faulty Rhetoric
Monday, March 10th, 2008The Springfield (Mo.) Pregnancy Care Center held a “vision banquet” Saturday night to kick off a capital campaign to raise $2.2 million for a new building. For its first eight years, the center has existed in increasingly cramped rented facilities. With the new facility, the PCC will be able to expand services to more clients, […]
What We Represent
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008In his sermons at this week’s Assemblies of God Prayer Summit in Springfield, Mo., Brooklyn Tabernacle Pastor Jim Cymbala stressed a theme that Christians need to hear: Jesus taught that people will know we are Christians by our love for others.
Yet, sadly, that’s rarely the case in our culture. The world often knows what we […]