by Mark Beckwith | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
It is a moral obscenity. It is said by some that white Afrikaners in South Africa are the victims of genocide, but there is no data to support the claim. It is said that the cohort of Afrikaners coming to America are refugees, but there are indications that they are...
by Mark Beckwith | May 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Several decades ago, a national debate raged over a question that helped launch America’s ongoing culture war: who can you love? One side was insistent that love – which would involve intimate sexual expression – should be confined to a man and a woman. A popular...
by Mark Beckwith | May 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
In April of 1970 the United States decided to invade Cambodia, thus expanding the Vietnam War. I was nearing the end of my freshman year in college. Campuses around the country rose up in angry indignation. Protests were planned, strikes were proposed, marches were...
by Mark Beckwith | Apr 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
It is becoming harder and harder to achieve emotional, spiritual and in some cases physical distance from what is happening in this country. I hear more and more people saying that they are reluctant to buy, sell or make changes to their home because the economy is...
by Mark Beckwith | Apr 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
For more than two hundred years we have been pulling former life out of the ground to heat our buildings, power our cars, run our machines, illuminate our lights. Fossil fuels, so named because they are the remnants of plants, animals and living microbes which, over...
by Mark Beckwith | Apr 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
They came into the city through separate gates, almost at the same time. The first was a procession that demonstrated power: Pontius Pilate’s power, backed by all the forces of the Roman Empire. The second procession was smaller, feeble by comparison, and it...
