The message of the Church is the same to gays as it is to straights - love God with all your heart, serve Him with all your might, right where you are.

One of the greatest threats to traditional family structure isn’t same-sex marriage, but rather the paradox of the Church opposing same-sex marriage while readily accommodating practices among heterosexuals that are contrary to the Gospel - namely - serial divorce and remarriage, cohabitation without marriage, bearing children without marriage, and the like. 

The scope of revelation continually expands from Genesis through the Gospels, into Acts, and beyond - always broadening, always deepening - and this ever expanding nature of revelation must be the unifying theme of any valid systematic theology.

The United States will never be conquered by a foreign invader. Profligacy and excess will overtake us long before that.

I’m reading about the 1948 Arab-Israeli War - the war for Israel’s independence - and it leaves me with a question that gets to the present conflict.

In 1948 the UN voted to partition Palestine into an Arab state, an Israeli state, and leave Jerusalem as an international city. This was the third historic proposal for an Arab state and, as in the past, the Arabs were not satisfied. Instead, they chose to fight rather than accept the deal. The Arabs lost the war and in the course of that they lost control of much of the land they’d been granted by the UN partition.

So here’s my question - if the fighting had gone the other way - with an Arab victory - would the Arabs have given back enough land for an Israeli state?

The NRA is, in effect, a member-supported gun industry lobbying organization.