Apostasy Cowardice or Buffoonery

Michael Bray, 1988 De Tocqueville’s alacritous 19th century account of American society draws the affections of Christian Patriots hither. In an age of license and decadence, his account of public civility and community spirit is attractive. In our time of convoluted “pluralism” (read: polytheism), his commendation of the explicitly Christian foundations of American society provides […]

Michael Bray 28 Feb., 2017 I am grateful for the article in the Journal featuring pastors of three churches in town (“Keys to a Thriving Congregation,” 28 February, by Gary Huffenberger). There was no definition of a Christian “church” supplied, but based upon the fact that all three were by their implied affirmation of the […]

22 Feb., 2017 As reported by Neil Snarr in the Journal (21 Feb., 2017) there was in Wilmington an anti-slavery newspaper published from 1851-1855, The Herald of Freedom, edited one John W. Chaffin. I was delighted to read about it. To the glory of Biblical truths and justice and to the credit of these Christian […]

10 Nov., 2016 I was glad to see Mr. Steed returned to service as a County Commissioner. He knows something about running a business and maintaining services within a budget. Politicians would do well to learn that skill prior to running for office. But more important even than such budgetary wisdom, perhaps, is the embrace of […]

27 Oct., 2016 It is not John or Charles Wesley or George Whitfield that I despise. No, as a good Lutheran fellow, I appreciate any fellow Christian with a high (i.e. historic) view of the Scriptures and the defining Creeds of the Faith. And that Faith is affirmed by historic Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Roman Catholics, […]

A brief commentary is offered by David French, September 3, 2015, in National Review: Kentucky federal judge David Bunning has ordered Rowan County clerk Kim Davis to jail, holding her in contempt of court for failing to affix her signature to gay-marriage licenses. Here’s Judge Bunning justifying his decision: “The court cannot condone the willful […]

Michael Bray 20 February, 2014 McClintock and Strong produced the Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, published by Harper and Brothers, 1867-1887, reprinted by Baker Book House Company in 1981. I bought by own copy within a few years of that date and remain gratified by the usefulness of the set – a wealth […]

CACN, Spring, 1997 In concert with one of the fundamental laws of theological liberalism, the pope is fighting the death penalty. He opposes capital punishment for people who commit capital crimes. Three times in 1996, the pope sought to intercede in U.S. executions. The latest beneficiary, Joseph O’Dell, was convicted of raping, sodomizing, and strangling […]

25 August 2011 Some might say that presidents are rolling over in their graves and shaking the capital city. Indeed, there is plenty of indignation to be had by anyone in possession of moral sensibilities. (Hint: Lawless sodomy and abortion are at the top of the list.) The Washington National Cathedral was the most damaged […]

18 September 2004 Letters to the Editor The Columbus Dispatch 34 S 3rd St. Columbus, OH 43215 Those Glossy Politicking NEA Mailings I wonder how many more of those glossy 8 ½ x 14 inch pro-John Kerry mailings I am going to receive from the National Education Association. So far three have arrived […]

CACN, Spring, 1999 60 Minutes and Lutherans Opposite the truthful Lutheran pastor (your very editor-in-chief) appeared a false teacher, one Richard Dowhower, pastor of a local Lutheran church in Bowie which is part of the apostate Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The ELCA was created in 1988 from the merging of three Lutheran denominations: the […]

CACN, Spring, 1999 Schenk’s Sloppy Doctrine I enjoyed some fellowship with Rob Schenk on a Christian talk radio show in St. Louis. The subject was the use of force to stop abortionist from committing murder. Rob Schenk is the pastor who helped organize the Buffalo “Spring of Life Campaign” in the mid 80s under the […]

CACN, Winter, 1998 Eric Rudolph bombed the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama at 0733 on January 29, 1998. Robert Sanderson, a 35-year-old off-duty police officer working as a security guard, was killed and Nurse Emily Lyons, 41, was seriously injured. “Prolife” Response to Rudolph Texas Right to Life Committee, Inc. issued a […]

April, 2008 Placerville: A Hate Free City! “Move to Placerville, California Where No One Hates Anyone!” Mayoral Breaches in California When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom authorized the issuance of marriage licenses in 2004 to sodomite pairs (referred to with increasing frequency as “gay and lesbian couples” or for the really progressive – “gay and […]

CACN, Spring, 1998 Lutherans for Life Sadly, they are as deluded as all the other establishment pro-life organizations. A press release was issued on 16 April by the organization immediately after the 60 Minutes feature. It proclaimed: “Bray does not represent Lutherans.” Moreover, “all of us who are upset and repulsed by Bray’s extremism . […]

26 July, 2011 Flip the Stalker http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/02/2423347/anti-abortion-activist-guilty.html On 2 July, 2011, the Charlotte Observer reported as follows: A Mecklenburg County jury Friday found a local anti-abortion activist guilty of stalking a Charlotte doctor by distributing posters with abortion doctors’ names and photos and bearing words “Wanted.” Flip Benham was charged with misdemeanor stalking after authorities […]

CACN, Winter, 1998 Conservatives and Prolifers Mark Crutcher’s Lime 5 is a devastating account of the both the damage and death abortion has caused mothers as well as the abuse of women who seek redress in the court system. In the introduction of the book, Crutcher says: “As president of Life Dynamics, Inc. – an […]

CACN, Fall 1996 Dopey GOPers After the senate failed to override Ahab’s veto of the bill to outlaw “partial-birth” infanticide, several Christian church leaders, theologians, and pundits who had gathered in D.C. expressed their disgust to the press. Now that two of three branches (and most of the third?) publicly supported the killing of the […]

Michael Bray, 2008 On My Honor: Morally Straight The Boy Scouts Of America have come under heavy fire for excluding professed homosexuals from membership. Some Councils have wavered, but they have not buckled under as the Girl Scouts of America have. Cradle of Liberty Council, a division of the Boy Scouts which serves 64,000 young […]

CACN, Winter 1998 AMA Apostates Damn Themselves In the wake of the aborting of Abortionist Slepian, The American Medical Association furthered its disgraceful solidarity with American childslaughter. The once-prestigious organization issued a press release (2 Nov.) expressing its goal “to protect our colleagues.” By regarding baby killers as colleagues, they associate themselves with the apostates […]