Our “Objective” News Media

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.]             There is no doubt about it. The news media, for the most part, are biased and prejudiced. Neither is there any doubt about the direction of their bias. Whether it…

Rebellion Against Authority

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Articles 2  page.]             The challenges of recent decades to authority in home, school, marketplace, and military were bound to have their parallels in religion. The very foundation of pontifical authority in Roman Catholicism…

What Is the “Radical Right”?

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.]             We have a strange, self-contradictory element in the Lord’s church today. They pretend to despise what they describe as labels and those who are “guilty” (as they view it) of…

Thank God for the Seven Thousand

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.]         While it is necessary on occasion to highlight the extreme departures some who were once among us have made, there is room for some optimism. One of the encouraging…

A Preacher’s Article and a Preacher’s Response

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Prefatory Note:  The following article by the late Tim Smith, a faithful Gospel preacher appeared in a 2006 issue of Contending for the Faith,  to which Dub McClish responded.  “Endeavoring to Keep…

One More Vicious Attack On “Conservatives”

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction The extreme to which some liberals in the church are willing to go in an attempt to discredit those who reject their agenda was demonstrated at the 1991 annual lectureship at David…

Higher Secular Education— What Should You Expect Your Child to be Taught?

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The general election of November 2008 was historic: The first black president of the United States was elected. However, his convictions far outweigh his race in making this election historically significant. Aside…

“…This Conscience Thing”

[Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.]        In 2015, Pro-life, anti-abortion members of Congress  proposed the “Protect Life Act” in an effort “…to prohibit the provision of federal education funding to state or local educational agencies…

A Sudden and Curious Emphasis on Balance   

[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction Has anyone else besides me noticed a recent upsurge in the cry for “balance” in preaching and writing? Further, am I the only one who has noticed that this emphasis is not…

What Are They Teaching Our Children?—Andy McClish

[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] The July 2000 issue of this publication carried my article titled “What Are We Teaching Our Children?” The thrust of that piece was that Christians (parents, teachers, and others) need to be…