Pope Francis received the Prime Minister of Lebanon, Saad Rafic Hariri, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican for a cordial conversation over a range of subjects, including various aspects of the situation in Lebanon including that of refugees. Pope Francis…

“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father Source: Benjamin Franklin, in the Poor Richard’s Almanack of 1738. Source Reference Benjamin Franklin Quote

President Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for Sayfullo Saipov, the unrepentant 29-year-old Uzbekistan immigrant suspected of killing eight people and injuring at least 11 others in a terror attack in New York City. Saipov who came to…

“Politics must be the battle of the principles… the principle of liberty against the principle of force.” Auberon Herbert, (1838-1906) English author. Source Reference Auberon Herbert Quote

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in…

Tragically, many Christians living in developed countries, or at least those who identify as Christians, are giving up the Bible. The Bible is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Without it Christians have no defense against secularism. And they are giving it…

“Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into…

A Mennonite church in New Mexico became the first church in its denomination to select an openly LGBT person as its head pastor. The Albuquerque Mennonite Church announced that it selected Erica Lea, an openly lesbian, to be its new…

“[I]t is a truth which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger, when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.” Alexander Hamilton, (1757-1804)…

U.S. President, Donald Trump has a symbiotic relationship with conservative evangelical religious leaders. Though he doesn’t know much about the Bible, and is a secular New Yorker, yet 60 percent of white evangelicals approve of Mr. Trump. “Trump has been…

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas…

“…A lot of our fellow southerners have sold their soul for temporal power and the check is bouncing.” John Meacham, guest on Joe Scarborough’s Morning Joe. Source Reference Morning Joe: Southern Church Leaders Are ‘Despicable Pharisees’, ‘Sold Their Soul For Temporal Power’