The Shock Factor of Heaven

Much ado is being made this week about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meeting face-to-face in Helsinki, Finland.

Despite the hysteria and clarifications, I’m more fascinated with another “face-to-face” that all of us will experience one day. That interview will contain no spin, deception, or need for understanding.

Quite the opposite.

Call it the shock factor of heaven.

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The Family We’re Fighting

The problem with separating parents from children of illegal immigrants at the border, currently being used to score political points by many, prompted me to think about families.

I will first offer my perspective on the border controversy, then discuss another view of “family” that we desperately need to understand.

Did you know that we are fighting quite a large “family” in the Western World?

Whose family is it?

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Devil Take the Youngest and Our Crisis of Meaning

The apparent gassing of 45 innocent men, women and children recently in Syria stunned the world–again. Chemical agents remain a hideous way to die, and every word of disgust leveled at the Assad regime (and its proxies, Russia and Iran) for committing this barbaric crime are well deserved.

U.N. Ambassador Nicki Haley’s blistering words stand out as the most poignant and clear response on the subject.

All innocent deaths are tragic. But when they involve children or youth, something inside of us revolts at the insanity and injustice.

Yet, the truth about juvenile deaths is much bigger than Syrian chlorine attacks. The devil remains committed to taking out the youngest–on both ends of the spectrum.

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