by S. Michael Craven
Those who know me know I love this season above all others and that for me, this season begins with our annual trip to the family farm for Thanksgiving. This a beautiful place among the rolling hills outside Brenham, Texas, that has been in my wife’s family since the 1840s. Each Thanksgiving we gather to give thanks and celebrate, among other things, the wonderful gift of family. My children have never known a Thanksgiving apart from the farm.

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by Paul Anthony Melanson
Secular Humanism has all the characteristics of a religion. The Secular Humanist places man at the center of things. In the Humanist Manifesto II, which was released in 1973, humanists called for a new faith: “…traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing God, assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them is an unproved and outmoded faith.

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By Ken Conner
A recent article in New York Magazine entitled “All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting,” examines the relationship between child-rearing and happiness.

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by S. Michael Craven
I am frequently asked for my thoughts on “public education.” Granted this is a dicey issue that can get you into a lot of trouble very quickly. However, the question is legitimate, given education’s enormous role in shaping our children; thus, as Christians, we have no choice but to wrestle with the answers, even if we don’t like them.

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by S. Michael Craven
Revival is a seemingly old-fashioned word that conjures up numerous definitions, some of which have little to do with authentic revival, or “times of refreshing” sent from the Lord as described in Scripture.

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By Brian D. Ray, Ph.D.
I recently wrote you about the difference between “education” and “school.” Schooling, I operationally defined, is the practice of teachers instructing, teaching, or drilling students (i.e., children and youth) in specific knowledge or skills such as reading, language, mathematics, and arts in a place away from the home and, allegedly, only secondarily in manners, philosophy, and morals.

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by Marvin Olasky
One of the Bible’s great statements about courage comes in chapter 5 of Esther. The Jewish queen of Persia has told Uncle Mordecai that she can’t go before the king: If she does, she’ll probably die.

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By streiff
Back in 2005 the pro-life movement took a hit when judge after judge decided that an incapacitated woman could be killed by dehydration. At the time, we on the pro-life side were lambasted as some kind of mindless Neoliths who were incapable of understanding even the simplest biological concepts while those in favor of this abomination patted themselves on their all too often white- and black-clothed backs and congratulated themselves on successfully squaring the circle of a previously unsolved ethical conundrum. In short, it was a replay of the arguments over abortion except this involved a helpless woman who was inconvenient to her husband, not a baby who was inconvenient to its mother.

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By Dr. Scott Elliott
With apologies to our understandably proud and jubilant Crimson Tide faithful, the University of Alabama, to me, wasn’t the biggest winner in Thursday night’s BCS national championship football game. That distinction went to a young man from Tuscola, Texas, named Colt McCoy.

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by Mike Adams
Back in 2007, I received an email from a young woman whose life was a mess. It wasn’t as bad a mess as Tiger Woods’ life. But she was miserable. And the source of her misery was similar to Tiger’s. She had been sleeping around for a number of years and simply couldn’t find peace and happiness. Apparently, something she read in one of my columns convinced her she could no longer continue to have sex outside of marriage and expect happiness.

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