In preparation to move my family to Paris, I was pleased to pick up The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed. Veteran authors and journalists Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau moved to Paris with their two daughters to spend a year in 2013-2014 researching the cultural and linguistic ques a family like […]
Throughout history’s story China has predominantly taken the place of a powerful regional influencer. Only in the past couple of hundred years did China find itself on the bottom instead of on top of the game, and she has never had any intention to stay there. The past 50 years have proven China’s determination to […]
Modern America looks a lot like the days before Communism gained a firm foothold in the Soviet Bloc nations. This is Rod Dreher’s main proposal in his 2020 release Live Not by Lies. In this journalistically styled warning cry Dreher proposes that, “under the guise of ‘diversity,’ ‘inclusivity,’ ‘equity,’ and other egalitarian jargon, the Left […]
One highlight of returning back to America to visit friends and family is Christian radio. Although while overseas I am grateful for the modern age and the host of Christian messages and podcasts available online, but there is something that sends a smile trekking across my face when I randomly turn on broadcast radio and […]
How have we arrived at the specific place we are now as a culture and as a contagious western people? A place where the statement, “I am a woman trapped in a man’s body,” makes sense to so many. This is the question Carl Truman begins with in his watershed book, The Rise and Triumph […]
7 Transformational Reactions to Bring Hope to America
Last week I posted a blog entitled, “7 Reasons for America’s Moral Mess” in which I outlined seven factors contributing to the state of America’s dire moral condition. In this and the subsequent blog I will propose two facets of the Christian’s reaction to America’s moral mess. In this blog I will approach the issue […]
As I was making my way through the produce section at our local grocery store this week, I noticed a young boy, not 10 years old pick up an apple from the stocked shelves and bite into it. I waited to see his mother’s reaction, expecting him to be reprimanded. Instead, she advised him in […]