Social Issues

2020-06-050Comments

5 Things I Have Learned this Week About the Police, Racism, and Hope

Here are the five things I have learned over the past week: I was horrified to see George Floyd killed by those cops. It made me ill to see what happened. From everything I...

by C Michael Patton

Politics

Social Issues

2020-06-021Comments

Navigating Political Narratives

Everyone has to remember, while we, as individuals, think we are right about our opinions concerning what is going on in our country, so does the other side. Both sides are...

by C Michael Patton

Moral Issues

Social Issues

2020-05-304Comments

Are We Protesting Racism Too Much?

I don’t think that many people understand that the current concentration of anti-racism can have detrimental effects to the ideals of equality. Let me briefly explain. For...

2018-11-020Comments

A Freedom We Should Celebrate or a Crime We Should Prosecute? It Can’t Logically Be Both.

Moral inconsistency leads to legal inconsistency, and legal inconsistency is another word for injustice. Imagine a basic right that you championed and exercised, but which, if...

2018-09-280Comments

The Five Worst Arguments of the “Week of Kavanaugh”

Did the judge do what his accuser says he did all those years ago? The only answer an honest observer can give is “I don’t know.” Maybe only a few people are in a position to...

2016-10-104Comments

Shocked and Appalled? Why?

Pardon me for not being “stunned” by the latest political “bombshell.” Or should I say, “for not pretending to be stunned”? To put it another way, pardon me for not...

2016-08-030Comments

15 Things that Should Not Influence your Vote

If you’re already tired of it, there will only be more coming. The ads, tweets, memes and speeches of the current political season reveal a list of repeated nonsense...

2016-07-153Comments

Are We Just Too Shallow to Solve our Problems?

This will sound like I’m a pessimist who is weary about the future of his society. The reason for that is that I’m a pessimist who is weary about the future of his...

2016-05-243Comments

Transgender Bathrooms: The Great Civil Rights Issue of our Time?

You keep up with the news, right? Have you heard about this gender bathroom thing? I’m kidding, of course. I know that you have, and maybe you’re tired of having to read and...

by Clint Roberts

Politics

Social Issues

2016-05-183Comments

Why Christians Are Ordered to Have Guns

There are quite a few people who are having problems with me posting a video of my son Will shooting our AR-15 (a rifle) on Facebook. The question is should Christians, in...

by C Michael Patton

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