By Jacqueline J. Holness While Christmas is the “most wonderful time of the year,” our culture does us no favors by virtually skipping Thanksgiving. Retailers, large and small, begin advertising Christmas wares at the beginning of November, and Christmas songs are played on radio stations as early as Halloween. But before we bypass Thanksgiving […]
By Jacqueline J. Holness The use of marijuana in American culture has long been associated with a subculture characterized by freewheeling, lackadaisical, radical aberration to societal mores. “Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used in the United States,” according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. However some Americans have become marijuana legalization […]
By Jacqueline J. Holness Although I attended church and Sunday school probably since a few days after I was born, it was not until I was a sixth grader that I began to love and appreciate the Bible. At that time my church formed a Bible Bowl team; as the minister’s daughter, of course […]
By Jacqueline J. Holness A Supreme Court ruling earlier this year is a reminder that Christians need to affirm the power of prayer in our culture, not just in our churches and homes. In May the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in the Town of Greece v. Galloway case that prayers offered before […]
By Jacqueline J. Holness “I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day.” This is the first line in the poem “I’d Rather See a Sermon” by poet Edgar A. Guest. He delivered a wallop of a sermon in just those few words. As Christians, we are called to “go and make disciples […]
