Don’t Just Hear Your Spouse, Listen 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger… -James 1:1-19 (ESV) 　　Listening can be tough. Oh sure, we hear all day long. We hear our spouses talking about their day, we hear our children telling that fifteen-minute-long story from...

　　America’s central economic problem is preserving the nations capacity to sustain growth vigorous enough to counteract an impending fiscal crisis of escalating national debt. Part of the reason that growth has declined in the last decades is the stifling force of over-regulation. The new administration’s sweeping agenda for regulatory rollback thus need not represent merely political posturing, but has the...

　　Our foreign policy debates today exceed in intensity those of the past four generations. This is not to say our debates are nastier—they have always been impolite—but rather that they cut to the core of the purpose of American foreign policy in a way that more recent debates have not. At the most basic level, the issue under question is...

　　Wednesday, March 12, 2025 　　The Unlikely Candidate 　　“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’” (1 Samuel 16:7 NLT) 　　David was a complex person. He was a warrior...

　　For decades, the administrative state has justified the accumulation of vast powers on the grounds of supposedly impartial expertise. In his new book, Over Ruled: The Human Toil of Too Much Law, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch argues that overregulation is choking nearly every aspect of American life, and it proves the danger of bureaucratic centralization. In this symposium, two...

　　A Prayer When You Have Lost All Hope 　　Written by: Vivian Bricker, Read by: Lia Girard 　　Bible Reading: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” - Romans 15:13 　　Read or Listen Below: 　　Whenever I’m struggling with...

　　One of the most famous elements from Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is his discussion of “soft despotism.” Tocqueville’s description of soft despotism is familiar—“despotism of this kind does not ride roughshod over humanity,” “it does not tyrannize”—and the immediate result is that the nation is reduced “to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals...

　　Walking in the Light 　　This devotional was written by Jim Burns 　　This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him, there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we...

　　The Holy Spirit Is Moving in Our Lives 　　By Whitney Hopler 　　Bible Reading: 　　“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” – John 3:8, NIV 　　When I left a grocery store one day in March, I...

　　One of the most important but largely unsung heroes of the Reagan Era was movie-maker John Hughes. A close friend of P. J. O’Rourke, Hughes wrote, directed, and/or produced a whole slew of movies, including Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Pretty in Pink, to name a few. Born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised during his teenage years in...

　　Build True Community 　　By: Michelle Lazurek 　　For where two or three gather in my name,there am Iwith them. Matthew 18:20 　　As a new Christian, I got involved with a couples' group in one of my first small groups. My husband and I joined this small group with four other couples. These couples varied in age, economic status, and background. All...

　　If the 118th Congress is remembered at all, it will likely be for its ineffectiveness and dysfunction, which persisted until the merciful end. In its last days, as it rushed for the exits, it put off, once again, final decisions on federal agency budgets until at least mid-March (nearly six months into the current fiscal year). This delay included military...