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This past July 4, President Obama delivered his message to America. Several conservative commentators noted that he failed to give the usual Presidential sign-off to such speeches, a hearty “God bless America.” All he mustered was, “From my family to yours, have a safe and happy Fourth of July.” Whether the omission was deliberate or […]

Coming soon to a theater near you (This fall, actually.) a cartoonish glorification of Hindu gods (read that “demons”) just for kids. Director Sanjay Patel has reached back to his childhood in India to form a team of superheroes based on three Hindu gods, Durga, Vishnu, and Hanuman. The Hindu deities help an alter-ego child,

First Peter 5:8 warns, “Your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him . . .” Tell that to the guy above on the left, and the guy on the right. Left, a man on a British safari in South Africa (just days ago) being attacked by

Is it possible to cast out the demons from an entire country? You’ve got to give Mexican Catholics credit for trying. At the cathedral of San Luis Potosi, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, the archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, performed an “Exorcismo Magno,” a huge exorcism on the whole country of Mexico. The Cardinal, and his associates,

This last week news surfaced about yet another brutality under so-called ISIS, Islamic-State, rule. Children were being crucified alive for supposedly violating Muslim rules about fasting during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, commemorating the revelation of the Koran to Mohammed. Thirty-eight tourists, mostly British, were slaughtered on a Tunisian beach by a

I’ll be in Portland, Oregon tomorrow night for a seminar. Little did I realize that I’d be heading into the twilight zone. The city of an annual nude bicycle race has broken yet another barrier of sensibility and rationality. The Oregon Trail which once directed adventurers westward has now led to an expansion of unexplored

I don’t watch TV much. Just cable news. Definitely not extreme leftist MSNBC. But while in Canada last week, I kept the TV on in the background (when I wasn’t doing Personal Spiritual Encounter sessions) to get the latest word on the Chattanooga, Tennessee shootings. On came an ad for an outfit called Cougar Life.

Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, is running for President. He made the announcement yesterday. At age 44, he is #15 among declared or likely GOP candidates. And like another Presidential candidate, Marco Rubio, he has an interesting background when it comes to spiritual warfare. In my blog of April 20, I reported on Florida Senator

It’s happened before. The people of Wedgewood Baptist Church of Ft. Worth, Texas understand what the members of Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina are going through. While the nation mourns the nine souls who were massacred in cold blood by Dylan Storm Roof on Wednesday June, 17, I can’t help but think about

In American evangelical Christianity, few terms are more over-used and ill-defined than “spiritual warfare.” (Okay, “prophetic” comes in a close second.) To some, spiritual warfare is a rousing worship service with a great praise band. NOT. To others it is a stem-winding sermon full of punctuated cliques and hearty “Amens.” NOT. To others spiritual warfare