Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Although Ramadan is a holy month of fasting for Muslims, you may have also noticed that it always seems to be a time of increased attacks on infidels. Last year during Ramadan there were 421 dead and 729 wounded. This year, the statistics will be equally grim. At first this seems like a contradiction. Ramadan occurs during the ninth lunar month in the Islamic calendar. It is time when Muslims fast from their first prayer of the day…

Kerby Anderson A family in Michigan was banned from selling their organic apples, peaches, and cherries at the farmers market. They weren’t banned because their produce is inferior or unfit for human consumption. They were banned because they believe in traditional marriage. They own a 120-acre farm and often bring some of their produce into the city to sell at the seasonal market. The farm also has a Facebook page. Their problem started when they expressed their traditional view of…

Penna Dexter Two United States senators have articulated a standard, which would disqualify any real Christian from office. The occasion was last week’s Senate confirmation hearings for Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Senator Bernie Sanders read from a blog post Russ Vought wrote, in January 2016, at the conservative website, Resurgent. The piece was a defense of Christianity and also of a religious school’s right to set standards for its…

Kerby Anderson In a speech at Hillsdale College, Andrew McCarthy told the story of leading the prosecution in 1993 of the terrorist cell that bombed the World Trade Center. At the time, other government officials told him that he “should read nothing into the fact that all the men in this terrorist cell were Muslims.” These officials explained that the terrorist actions weren’t representative of Islam, because it is religion that encourages peace. The government also portrayed the leader of…

Kerby Anderson College costs so much more than it did a few decades ago. When baby boomers went to college, they often paid for college with money they earned from summer jobs. Today, the millennial generation graduates with crushing amounts of student loan debt. So why is college so expensive now? The typical answer you get is that public funding for higher education was slashed and so the universities had to raise tuition year after year. It makes for a…

Kerby Anderson You have probably been hearing about the phenomenon of grade inflation for many years. It’s much worse than you might imagine. A recent report tells is all: “Everyone gets an A? College grade inflation spiking.” To make the point, I posted the graph of college grade distributions nationwide on my Facebook page and on Pinterest. The comments from people who saw the graph are very interesting. From the 1960s, you notice that the percentage of A grades increase…

Kerby Anderson You may have noticed that often during a conversation about Islam, someone points out that radical Muslims are but a small percentage of the whole Muslim population. That is true, but there is another percentage that rarely gets mentioned: the percentage of Muslims who want to make Sharia law the official law of a country. A number of years ago, Pew Research interviewed nearly 40,000 Muslims in 39 countries concerning sharia law. Let’s start with the two countries…

Kerby Anderson Dementia is typically a disease that affects the elderly. But doctors are starting to talk about a new type of cognitive condition affecting younger individuals. They call it “digital dementia.” It results, they say, from the overuse of digital technology, such as smart phones and computers. Brain function deteriorates because of digital overuse. The left side of the brain is generally associated with rational thought (numbers, and facts). The right side is responsible for creative skills and emotional…

Kerby Anderson Brian Thomas points out that the eastern two-thirds of the country have little federally owned land. By contrast, the federal government owns most of the land in the western states. Henry Lamb asks why the federal government owns 65 percent of the land west of Denver and only 2 percent of the land east of Denver. These questions are beginning to be asked by various commentators especially as citizens in western areas of America would like to develop…

Penna Dexter When the abortion industry gathers, there’s bound to be shock value in abortionists’ remarks when they think they’re speaking just among their peers. The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) sent investigators undercover to the National Abortion Federation (NAF) conventions held in 2014 and 2015. The NAF is a trade group of abortion providers. We are only now getting to see this footage because a preliminary injunction preventing its release has been in effect. It was obtained after Planned…

Kerby Anderson Christians are surrounded by a supermarket of worldviews, so it is not surprising that many have uncritically accepted many of these false views of reality. The Barna Group in association with Summit Ministries conducted a survey of practicing Christians to determine how they were influenced by these worldviews. They found that younger Christians (millennials and generation X) were much more likely to accept unbiblical worldviews than previous generations. They also found that males were more susceptible than females…