We Must Be The Same

We Americans Think We Enjoy Self-government. We Have All The Trappings Of Self-government, Like Elections. But In Reality, We Have Gradually Lost Many Of Our Rights To Govern Ourselves. We Have The Form Of Self-government, But Only Some Of The Substance. We Are, In A Sense, A Nation Run By A Handful Of Judges Who Often Enforce, Not The Law, But Their Personal Opinions.

Frontline Love. It Is Our One Hope For Breaking Down Barriers And For Restoring The Sense Of Community, Of Caring For One Another, That Our Decadent, Impersonalized Culture Has Sucked Out Of Us.

Life Is A Mess. And Theology Must Be Lived Out In The Midst Of That Mess.

The Bible - Banned, Burned, Beloved. More Widely Read, More Frequently Attacked Than Any Other Book In History. Generations Of Intellectuals Have Attempted To Discredit It, Dictators Of Every Age Have Outlawed It And Executed Those Who Read It. Yet Soldiers Carry It Into Battle Believing It More Powerful Than Their Weapons. Fragments Of It Smuggled Into Solitary Prison Cells Have Transformed Ruthless Killers Into Gentle Saints

The Average College Graduate's Proficient Literacy In English [the Ability To Read Lengthy, Complex Texts And Draw Complicated Inferences] Has Declined From 40 Percent In 1992 To 31 Percent Ten Years Later.