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I am an occasional viewer of Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ PBS television show, “Finding Your Roots”. In it, he traces the ancestry of well-known personalities in our modern culture. He often finds a surprise for his guests. One of those people was actor, John Lithgow (Season 7, Episode 7, April 13, 2021). Gates discovered that

Computers control your life in ways you do not even realize, especially in your emotional health. Countless souls suffer from depression because of the technology that is at their fingertips on a moment-by-moment basis. Christians are not exempt. The positive contribution of computers cannot be denied, but, if misused, they can be very destructive. Social

Russia has a long legacy of overextending itself in military aggression: Crimea (1852-1856), World War I (1914-1918) and Afghanistan (1979-1989). That legacy is repeating itself today in Ukraine. In 1852, Russian Czar Nicolas I occupied Crimea, the same territory President Vladimir Putin overtook when he invaded Ukraine in 2014. The 1856 defeat of Russia in

If you have seen Disney’s 2020 live-action movie, “Mulan”, you probably did not realize that it was filmed on backs of the oppressed Uyghur (WEE ∙ guhr) people in Xinjiang, China, where this minority ethnic group of Muslims is being detained in concentration camps run by the Communist Party (Los Angeles Times, 9/11/2020). Similarly, Apple

I am grateful that First Baptist Church of Newnan, Georgia, elected Amy and me to be messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. At the June 14 afternoon business session, we voted, with the vast majority of other messengers, to adopt the recommendations of the Sexual Abuse Task Force. Their

Jesus said, “the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28 emphasis added). Paul further described Jesus’ death on the cross by saying that He “…gave Himself a ransom for all…” (1 Timothy 2:6 emphasis added). Did Jesus die for