Dolly Parton: Character Lessons from the Life of an American Original

Approximately 165,000 people die every day around the world.  That’s 60 million people a year, 7000 per hour, 117 a minute, and two per second. 
 
If Saint Peter meets believers in Jesus at the Pearly Gates, then when Dolly Parton passed into eternity on August 25, 2026, his words of welcome might have included:
 
Hello, Dolly! Well done good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:21).
 
Humor aside, Dolly Parton was a believer in Jesus who is now in God’s presence (2 Corinthians 5:8). She lived a larger-than-life existence that only could have happened in the United States of America. 
 
What can we learn from her life?

Praying for The Midterms

I never thought much about midterm elections. They were the “B” game after the “A” game of presidential years. Choosing a president was important–directing the entire ship of state for four years. But the measly midterms? I always voted in them, but many of my friends didn’t bother.

For decades, the midterm elections made little impact because America operated out of a Judeo-Christian worldview. The Democrats championed the working classes and the poor, and Republicans supported business and the military. But both parties believed in God and generally anchored their platforms in the Ten Commandments and Golden Rule.

No longer. 

Two worldviews are vying for cultural supremacy in the USA and Western World: biblical freedom and totalitarianism. The 2026 midterms will swing the pendulum one way or the other.

We need to increase our prayers for the midterm elections.

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Atheist Thinking is Turning Us into Idiots

I’ve been writing for decades about the worldview battle taking place in Western culture.

For hundreds of years our civilization anchored itself in the bedrock truths of the Old Testament as wise and crucial for just and humane societies. We also imbibed the grace and love of God found in Jesus as the oxygen of our social fabric.

We ascribed to the Judeo-Christian worldview. Grace and truth make individuals and nations strong.

But like a cancer, an atheistic, no-God, secular worldview has been infecting our nation for years. 

And atheistic thinking is turning us into idiots.

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