Posts by Kevin Schaal

Political Participation is a Biblical Stewardship Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the…

We grew up calling them cow chips. You know what they are. It goes in as grass, comes out as manure, and once dried becomes a “chip.” Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; but much increase comes by the strength of an ox. (Proverbs 14:4) This is one of the most important verses…

  One of the lasting vestiges of communism/socialism is the idea that the state can replace the family in the essential roles that the family has played for millennia. It was a social experiment that has proven itself a failure and yet it continues, fomented by an anti-God fervor that is sending humanity to its…

I want to make this one short and very clear. The enshrinement of abortion in state constitutions and the normalization of abortion in the United States has been going on for 50 years, but this is a first. The Vice President of the United States of America, a woman who has actively opposed ANY restrictions…

“It’s the economy, stupid!” It was a phrase coined by James Carville to focus the 1992 Clinton campaign, and everyone else, on one singular issue he thought was a campaign winner—and it worked. Politicians, especially as campaigners like to keep their message focused. This coming election is no exception.  The 2020 election was a referendum…

I wrote last week about the intrinsic tie between a Chinese religious cult called Falun Gong and the popular conservative newspaper called Epoch Times. I have been asked for a follow-up and explanation. The Association with Falun Gong One of the original clues I saw regarding the relationship between the Epoch Times and Falong Gong…

I fell for it. It eventually gets difficult to buy gifts for older people. After all, they have almost everything they need—in fact, usually more than they need. So, for my 86-year-old mother, we have been buying tickets to the symphony or other such concerts as Christmas and birthday presents. But even with classical forms…

On February 13, 2023, Matthew Loftus at mereorthdoxy.com published an article entitled You can’t Reclaim the Culture by Having More Kids. This has been a sort of mantra of the home school movement for the last 25 years or so. After all, Islam is taking Europe through immigration and population growth in the same way,…

Many of you have been watching the story of Alistair Begg unfold over the last few weeks. Begg shared a story in a September 2023 interview about how he had advised a grandmother to go ahead and attend a grandchild’s transgender wedding. That advice presumed that the grandchild understood the grandmother’s Christian testimony and her…