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Okay, so I’m a week late. But I had to write about what I shared in a brief homily delivered to family and friends last week on Mother’s Day. My scriptural reference was Matthew chapter 20 where Salome, the wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John (and likely the sister of Mary), approached […]

You’ve likely seen the reports this week about the drastic decline of religion in America. The respected Pew Research Center has revealed some startling facts comparing spiritual faith today in America with spiritual conditions in 2007. Atheists and agnostics have doubled their share of the religious marketplace. The percent of people saying they are Christians has

What does an exorcist read? The Bible, of course. Every day. Beyond that I stay in touch with politics, religious trends, social change, world events, and church history. I’m particularly interested in knowing how the American evangelical church has adopted such a mostly pathetic state of dumbed-down Christianity. I don’t mean that Christians are dumb.

During a Skype Personal Encounter session recently, I encountered a strong Freemason curse. It was so powerful that it went back nearly 800 years to the reign of King Philip IV of France. I knew that the individual to whom I was ministering had Freemasonry in her family, but it was when she mentioned that

As an unsaved teenager with my own rock band, I strained at the sounds coming from my 45 rpm record player. Did the singer really say what I thought he said? Like many other kids my age, I was fascinated by the controversy. It all seems prosaic now when compared with today’s foul-mouth rap artists

Ours is a death-denying age. We mourn briefly. Scatter ashes. Out are wakes and open caskets. We push the idea of dying as far out of sight as possible. But in China they’ve taken death and dying to a whole new level by inviting strippers, complete with pole dancing, to funerals. So few people in

It’s official. Ireland now joins England, America, and other Western nations in recognizing witchcraft as equivalent to Christianity, at least from a legal standpoint. All laws against witchcraft in England were rescinded in 1951. Northern Ireland has also now granted full religious status to the Order of the Golden River, a witchcraft cult. Members of

He claims to be a Christian but hardly ever goes to church. Try to name the last night you saw Barack and Michelle Obama, with their children, exiting a church on Sunday morning. Rare. He’s not exactly compliant with Hebrews 10:25 to not forsake the assembling of believers. But open a mosque, and he’s there

Hillary can tolerate an adulterous husband, lose incriminating legal files (Remember Whitewater?), and illegally delete State Department emails, but she’s the media darling and the heralded champion of the middle class. New Republican candidate for President, Senator Marco Rubio has none of that baggage but has already been declared unfit for public office. His sin?

The photo above could represent a life-saving procedure to rescue a terminally ill patient who needs a new lung or liver. But what if the container held a human head? Would that seem so noble? Well, a 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant.