RHETT-orical: musing about Faith, Family, and Freedom

Governor Abbott Signs Pastor Protection Act Into Law Governor Greg Abbott today signed Senate Bill 2065 (Estes, R-Wichita Falls; Sanford,...

Enjoyed this word this morning from the biography of George Mueller by A. T. Pierson:  "The pavilion of God is the saint’s place of...

It only took from Friday to Monday for the movement to begin in TIME magazine to cause churches to lose their tax-exempt status. "T...

This week, we have twice seen Supreme Court justices violating their judicial oaths. Yesterday, the justices rewrote Obamacare, yet again, ...

An excerpt from Chief Justice Roberts' dissent:   "Those who founded our country would not recognize the majority’s conception...

Ben Stein shares another excellent commentary on the state of affairs in our nation.  As Todd Starnes shared this week, Stalin and Lennin ...

Justice Scalia's entire scathing dissent is excellent as he calls out the unconstitutional judicial tyranny of Friday's ruling. He...

"Kennedy’s ruling is rooted in convenience not in constitutionality, rooted in political expediency rather than principle. Given the r...

Ben Stein shouts out high praise of South Carolina and my hometown of Greenville , which he calls "the hippest city in the nation....

Last night I worshiped in a black Presbyterian church in a very rural part of Laurens County South Carolina. My children and wife have pa...

This is the third part of a series.  You can view Living in Babylon part two here. Sometimes we find ourselves, like the Jewish exiles in...

My article "Words for the Weary" is up at the Almost an Author site.

  Here's a good reminder from Tony Perkins of our need to pray for America.   

Michelle Cox offers some great, practical ways to show love and honor to your father on Father's Day. Read her article 10 Ways to Mak...

This unusually LONG blog post summarizes our recent family vacation.  If you are not interested in reading, feel free to ignore! For se...

There are so many current articles on this subject that I could post.  The following one from Dennis Rainey and Family Life Today is an ex...

A great Christian woman died yesterday.  Elisabeth Elliot has been called one of the 20 most influential Christian women of the 20th centur...

The Baptist Courier , the newspaper of South Carolina Baptists, posted the following story about me.  See it here.

Rick Ezell, my mother's pastor, offers some good perspective and advice for pastors and other church-leaders . . . "The American...