“These that have turned the world upside down have come here also.” Acts 17:6b We have entered a time when lives lived for Christ are increasingly seen by the drifting, foundation-less culture around us as harmful to mental health and societal order. The murder of the innocent unborn is now celebrated, replacing the wonder of procreation. Our refusal to accept as normal what is debauched has become hate. Skepticism regarding evolution and climate change is seen as anti-scientific. Belief in…..
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day In 1864, during the dark days of America’s terrible Civil War, 19-year-old Union Lieutenant Charles Longfellow, son of America’s great poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was nearly killed by a bullet during the Mine Run Campaign in Virginia. His famous father had lost his beloved wife Fanny in a house fire in 1861. He himself was badly burned while trying to save her. Until recent times it could be said that the American Civil…..