FIRST-PERSON: A religious freedom Christmas wish
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--This Christmas, I am wishing for a special gift to the students of faith in our nation's schools. I wish them freedom.
FIRST-PERSON: What Thanksgiving means to America
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--Thanksgiving is probably the most significant American holiday because of the favor it has experienced from some of our greatest leaders. And the Thanksgiving tradition serves as a valuable history lesson for civil libertarians who carelessly attempt to ignore our nation's prominent religious heritage that should not be swept under the proverbial rug.
FIRST-PERSON: In praise of Judge Roy Moore
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--Judge Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has vowed to fight a federal court order instructing him to remove the Ten Commandments monument he placed at the state judicial building in July of last year.
FIRST-PERSON: The fight for the unborn
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--I know how much many of you hate the scourge of partial-birth abortion.
FIRST-PERSON: Whether innocent babies live or die
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--"One of our major objectives in the 2002 election is to retain pro-choice leadership in the Senate."
FIRST-PERSON: Hypocrisy in education
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--What would be the response of civil libertarians and leftist academics if a major state-run university decided to mandate that all incoming freshmen students study a commentary on the Bible written by me?
FIRST-PERSON: Federal Court says America no longer one nation ‘under God’
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--In what must be considered one of the darkest days in American legal history, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to omit the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.
FIRST-PERSON: Spiritual fireworks in St. Louis amid SBC evangelistic commitment
ST. LOUIS (BP)--The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was met with some unexpected fireworks after my friend Dr. Jerry Vines, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., declared that Muhammad was a "demon-possessed pedophile" and that Islam teaches the destruction of all non-Muslims.
FIRST-PERSON: ABC bleeps out ‘Jesus’
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--The Media Research Center (MRC), a conservative media watchdog group, has reported that ABC officials recently chose to bleep out the word "Jesus" on the West Coast broadcast of its morning talk show, "The View."
FIRST-PERSON: Our honored dead
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--"As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down, I became a visitor to hell." -- Pvt. Charles Neighbor, 29th Division, Omaha Beach.
