"Red States" and "Blue States" now seem locked into America's everyday jargon. The so-called "Culture Wars" pit old time Americana values against the more progressive-liberal stream of the national psyche. Yet the terms Red States (politically conservative) and Blue States...

At the birth of the euro a few years ago, the British news magazine The Economist reminded readers that one of the great lessons of history is that all paper money eventually fails. At the time, nobody expected the US...

Celebrating a day of thanksgiving for its blessings is an American tradition. But have more than half of all Americans today forgotten the original purpose for Thanksgiving Day? Is it now only "turkey day"—a day on which feasting and football...

Another American election is now history. As results from the national polls are analyzed, let's pose a challenging question. If His earthly ministry had occurred in our lifetime on the streets of the United States, how would Jesus have fit...

The hope that a democratic Iraq will exert a powerfully stabilizing influence throughout the Middle East seems to be one of the driving motivations behind current U. S. policy. But the most persistent tinderbox in the Middle East is not...

The 2004 U. S. election is over. But in the days leading up to it a small but significant number of voters were still undecided about their preference for their national leader. These "undecided" voters grabbed the nation's political spotlight.

America has heart problems—she has two hearts! The 2004 national election will largely determine which heart will dominate. The nations of the world wait—political stethoscopes in hand and ear—to hear the beat...

As the jarring accusations, arguments and harangues between political parties and their chosen candidates continue at full-throated volume in the U.S. election races, I have been reflecting on why the positive traits of character are so absent from politics.

In approximately two weeks Americans will go to the polls and elect the next president of the United States. Yet few Americans seem to realize that there are more than two candidates for this office...

Fall is the season for harvest festivals. An online search for "harvest festival" produced over 50,000 listings. Celebrating the end of a successful harvest after a season of hard work seems like a natural thing to do. This custom dates...

Marriage is in a sad state in the Western world. Divorce rates skyrocketed from barely 2 percent of marriages in 1900 to nearly 50 percent by the year 1990. In more recent years these rates have leveled off, not because...

In all human political systems there is plenty that is corrupt, sad and disappointing. For all the sincerity that politicians bring to debates, none can guarantee what we need the most: lasting peace, enduring prosperity and perfect standards with total...

Less than two weeks before the third anniversary of the horrific Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the U.S. Republican Convention convened in New York City just four miles from the site of Ground Zero. From it came...

The United States of America is most powerful, the richest and most influential nation in the world. One might expect its greatness to stem from the majority of its 270 million people being united in support of its government, its...

A Christian's life moves in continuous cycles of training and testing. We run a race that requires goal-setting, improving our performance and struggling against our own weaknesses and the competition.

We Europeans all sincerely want peace. But at times we have unwisely supported policies that have prolonged and aggravated political conflicts. So we need to ask, is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East linked in any way to the...