Most men today arrive in adulthood with injured masculinity. We are victims of bad or absent fathering, or abuse by other males. Rather than displaying the characteristics of mature manhood, we display the absence of masculinity in passivity, indecision, effeminacy, and moral weakness, or the...
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Deconstructing Euthanasia’s Slippery Slope
I’ve had it with my conservative fellows who insist on tightly linking abortion with right-to-die issues. Sure they are related. NO, they are not synonymous, nor must the decision to allow the right-to-die be instricately linked to abortion rights. Let us instead try to separately...
The Five Functions of Civil Government

Here’s one more article from Mark Beliles, culled from an old publication, and probably expanded upon in his book Liberating the Nations: Civil government is one of the five main areas of jurisdiction to whom God gives certain responsibilities and very definite limits. This article...
The Five Spheres of Government

The following essay on government is from an out of print Christian newspaper. I want to post this short section of the essay, since it is a great primer on a biblical view of government. This essay was originally written as a response to a...
Finding Meaning – Objective and Subjective Approaches
Meaning, like truth, has both objective and subjective components. Over the centuries, wise men, spiritualists, and philosophers have observed the human condition and concluded that certain principles and practices lead to relative ruin and unhappiness, while others lead to meaning and satisfaction. This is why...
Atheists Attempt to Kill Easter Bunny
David Silverman, communications director of American Atheists recently mentioned in a Hannity & Colmes interview that he objects to the Easter bunny, since Easter is a religious holiday. Now, as we all know, Easter comes from the pagan celebration of Ishtar, which I suppose has...
Citizens for Reasonable Abortion Limits (CRAL)
For about a year now, I have been troubled by the argument that embryonic stem cell research has been deemed morally unacceptable by my fellow conservatives. It stems (pun intended) from their logic in the abortion debate. Their logic goes like this (I hope I...