from the Foundation for American Christian EducationA great lesson from our history It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till […]
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JUNE 5, 1967, the Six-Day War Began
From the American Minute with Bill Federer Egypt sent 80,000 troops and 900 tanks to attack Israel. Jordan and Syria, with Soviet weapons, violently shelled Jerusalem and Israeli villages. Cairo radio announced: “The hour has come in which we shall destroy Israel.” The hot line between Washington and Moscow was used for the first time. […]
Letter to Editor: response to Larsen re: homosexual marriages
God creates people and laws, not the courts. In the Richard Larsen essay (May 27) I am appalled at his calling “same-sex” a marriage, when the Bible claims homosexual conduct is a sin, an abomination, and abnormal. How can Larsen and the Star condone and support the court decision to legalize two people of the […]
Jesus, Israel, and the Temple
by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., Th.D. With the 60th anniversary of the Republic of (& secular state) of Israel being established in the mid-east by the United Nations in 1948, the only democratic free nation in that region of the world, I feel it is important for Christians to understand the Biblical perspective of this land, […]
May 15 – Armed Forces Day
ARMED FORCES DAY from the American Minute with Bill FedererMay 15 Army Day, Navy Day and Air Force Day were combined in 1949 to be Armed Forces Day, celebrated the 3rd Saturday of May. Army Day formerly was the date the US entered World War I, Navy Day was President Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday and Air […]
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
By Nordskog Publishing on May 11, 2008 in Guest Essays, James and Barbara Rose, John Adams, Mothers Day, Publisher’s Corner
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTEEAGLE’S AERIEJames and Barbara Rose HAPPY MOTHER’S DAYJohn Adams on “The Manners of Women”(from his Autobiography)“From all that I had read of History of Government, human life and manners, I have drawn this conclusion, that the manners of women were the most infallible Barometer, to ascertain the degree of Morality and Virtue […]
The Christian Roots of Our Constitution by Verna M. Hall
By Nordskog Publishing on May 6, 2008 in Christian Education, Guest Essays, Publisher’s Corner, Verna M. Hall
The Legacy & Treasury of Verna M. Hall …Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that […]
Beijing Besieged
Dear Friends, please read these two articles from a friend, Reggie Littlejohn, a specialist in China affairs. These are very timely considering the Olympics coming up this year in Communist China. Jerry By Reggie Littlejohn for Human Rights Without Frontiers Three events have converged on Beijing in just the past week: Haile Gebrselassie pulled out […]
2008 Olympics: Beijing’s toxic air reflects its human rights record.
By Reggie Littlejohn (for Human Rights Without Frontiers) Beijing is likely the most polluted city in the world. With smog sometimes measuring five times the World Health Organization’s safety level, pollution in Beijing is of huge concern to the health and performance of the Olympic athletes. Concern about pollution has thus far been overshadowed by […]
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Thanks to my friend actor and historian Roger Nelson, who performs The Real St. Patrick in his one-man play, “The Confession of St. Patrick” (visit Roger on the web for details of his various performances @ www.a1manplay.com) for the following facts: A Super Brief Synopsis of St. Patrick’s Life: He was an Italian born in […]
PATRICK (380-472): APOSTLE TO IRELAND
By Nordskog Publishing on March 13, 2008 in Guest Essays, James and Barbara Rose, Publisher’s Corner, St. Patrick
Thanks for this essay from James & Barbara Rose of American Christian History Institute: Patrick, according to his “Confession,” was a Briton, from southern Scotland. He was captured at age 16, and carried off by pirates as a slave to Ireland where he was a shepherd for five years. There he reflected upon his Christian […]
Patrick’s Background and Youth
By Nordskog Publishing on March 12, 2008 in Guest Essays, James and Barbara Rose, Publisher’s Corner, St. Patrick
Thanks for this essay from James & Barbara Rose of American Christian History Institute:From his short autobiography, Confession, we find that Patrick’s father was named Calpurnius, a deacon in a church of the Christian religion. His grandfather, Potitus, was a presbyter in that same church. Patrick and his ancestors lived in the ancient town of […]
The Bulletproof George Washington
By Nordskog Publishing on February 23, 2008 in George Washington, Guest Essays, James and Barbara Rose, Publisher’s Corner
Thank you to James Rose, American Christian History Institute, for this article (book available from David Barton’s Wallbuilder) about The Bulletproof George Washington: The Bulletproof George Washington George Washington’s part in the July 9th, 1755, battle during the French and Indian War is indisputably one of the most significant events of his early years: his […]
Father of Our Country – George Washington
George Washington is known affectionately as “The Father of Our Country” and rightly so! According to David Barton of Wallbuilders: “Probably no individual outside of Jesus Christ had a greater impact on American life and culture. As President Calvin Coolidge acknowledged nearly a century ago: “Washington was the directing spirit without which there would have […]
Happy Birthday on PRESIDENTS DAY to WASHINGTON and LINCOLN
By Jerry Nordskog on February 18, 2008 in George Washington, Jerry’s Commentary, Lincoln, Publisher’s Corner
Dear Friends, we honor past presidents of the U.S.A. – all of them but particularly George Washington, the Father of the Country (my favorite, my hero), and also Abraham Lincoln (although he certainly was the first of the big-government interventionist presidents). I have some furthering comments and quotations from these astute gentlemen of past years, […]