Joanne Kemp

Posted by on 5.8.09 in Current Events

Peggy Noonan has written a wonderful tribute to Jack Kemp who died of cancer last Saturday at the age of 73. The entire column deserves careful reading because, as Noonan puts it, Jack Kemp “had the power of a happy man.” Something worth remembering in this all-too-cynical age. The article ends with a glowing tribute to Joanne Kemp. I r…

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“Much Work for Us Yet to Do”

Posted by on 5.7.09 in Current Events, Devotional

On this National Day of Prayer we need to remind ourselves that God works through history to accomplish his purposes. During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln often drew on his faith in God sometimes to comfort, sometimes to challenge his countrymen. During the early days of the war, at a moment when there was no news from the front and many feared the…

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God of Our Fathers

Posted by on 5.7.09 in Current Events, Devotional

Did you know that America has a “National Hymn”? Most people don’t know that, but we do, and I’m not speaking about the National Anthem. I’m talking about the hymn God of Our Fathers. We don’t hear it or sing it very often nowadays, and that’s a pity because in many ways, it is an ideal marriage of tune and …

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President Obama and His Evangelical Supporters

Posted by on 5.6.09 in Current Events

Much has been written about Notre Dame inviting President Obama to be the speaker for its upcoming commencement service, at which time the university will award the president an honorary degree in recognition of his various accomplishments. John Armstrong weighed in today with a fine statement about the whole controversy. He notes that Obama is the…

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Miss USA (almost)

Posted by on 4.22.09 in Current Events

By now the whole inhabited world, by which I mean those who watch TV and follow the Internet, knows about Carrie Prejean who almost became Miss USA the other night but ended up in second place presumably because of how she answered a question from a strange fellow named Perez Hilton about gay marriage. Although Miss Prejean’s answer was not a…

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Paul Harvey Died Today

Posted by on 2.28.09 in Current Events

Legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey died today at the age of 90. Besides virtually creating his own medium that combined reporting with news commentary, he also knew how to tell a story. He gave the tease, paused, told a bit more, paused, let the story unravel a bit at a time, pausing along the way, then he would hit the punch line. He was a ma…

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Taking Chance

Posted by on 2.22.09 in Current Events, Movies

Tonight Marlene and I watched Taking Chance, a brand-new HBO movie starring Kevin Bacon. Based on real-life events, “Taking Chance” tells how Lt. Col. Michael Strobl (Bacon), a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming….

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Is America Becoming Hostile to Children?

Posted by on 2.21.09 in Current Events

The always provocative Keith Drury has written a new article called How Dare You Have Eight Children! Despite the title, it’s not really about the “octuplet mom” in California. Drury is writing about a larger social trend in which having children is viewed as a purely personal choice and not as the natural outcome of the marriage …

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A Leftover Thought

Posted by on 2.21.09 in Current Events, Devotional

A leftover thought from our Thursday night Men’s Bible study:You find out how much you love money when you have less of it today than you had six months ago. …

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Will Allen Iverson Go to Heaven?

Posted by on 2.17.09 in Current Events, Theology

I confess to not having given any thought as to the eternal destination of Allen Iverson, a premier professional basketball player with the Detroit Pistons, and I would not have thought about it at all if Mr. Iverson had not raised the topic himself. During a press conference in connection with the NBA All-Star Weekend, Allen Iverson brought up the…

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