One of my favorite Disney movie scenes of all time is in the Lion King, when Simba was having a hard time acknowledging and accepting where he came from and who he was. A “strange baboon” named Rafiki befriended him and surprisingly knew  Simba’s identity — “You’re Mufasa’s boy!” During that scene, his father, Mufasa, appeared to him, encouraged him and pleaded…

On January 22, 1973, the course of this nation was altered forever when the highest court in the land ruled it was constitutional (i.e., Roe v. Wade) to rip unborn babies from their mothers’ wombs, crush their bodies and throw them in the dumpster. (I’m certain that was not the exact wording in the court’s decision, but that was the result.) As…

Earlier this week in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, a teacher was fired because he had answered a student’s question about the Bible and then gave the student (who said he did not have a Bible of his own) his personal copy of the New Testament. Can you believe what is happening in this nation? A teacher can tell a student that he came…

Have you looked at your car lately? Really looked at it? How does it compare now to when it was new? Look at the headlights–do they still sparkle in the sun, or are they dingy? Look at the paint–do the metallic flakes still glitter across the hood, finders and doors, or is it dingy? After a while, every possession we have, including…

My family used to love watching “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” but we stopped because almost every member of every family (who was given a newly-built, custom-designed home) could not express themselves without saying over and over, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God!” That seems to be the favorite exclamation today of “religious” and “non-religious” people alike. The name of God is holy…