KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Morals
AS A MAN Thinketh by James Allen is arguably the best non-inspired book ever written on the power of thought... Allen compared the mind to a garden and its owner to a master gardener. A good character is not the...
A CALIFORNIA SCHOOL system refuses to say what action, if any, it will take after it received complaints about a kindergarten teacher who encouraged her students to sign "pledge cards" in support of homosexuals... During a celebration of National Ally...
EVER PLANT A garden...? Or maybe just a few flowers in a bed or a plant in a pot? Something makes it possible for the gardener to function, or a farmer to produce a crop is a "law" of nature....
WHERE DID WE come from...? Who are we? Why are we here? How should we live? Where are we going? The answers to each of these questions depend on the existence of God. If God exists, then there's ultimate meaning...
RELATIVISTS OFTEN CONFUSE the changing behavioral situation with the unchanging moral duty... For example, when discussing a moral topic like premarital sex or cohabitation, you often hear people in support of it say something like, "Get with it, this is...
TO LISTEN TO the news as of late, you would think civilization itself hinges on whether or not we should waterboard terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay. It is THE dominant theme in American politics right now and virtually every liberal...
FOR RELATIVISTS JUSTICE is simply the plaything of the courts... Or, in the words of Charles Evans Hughes, "the Constitution is what the judges say it is." Even more disturbing were the words of Chief Justice Fred Vinson, in the...
GEORGE O. WOOD writes that on October 31, 1983, Korean Airlines flight 007 departed from Anchhorage, Alaska for a direct flight to Seoul, Korea... Unknown to the crew, however, the computer engaging the flight navigation system contained a one-and-a-half-degree routing...
THE STORY IS told of a young man who came to the door of a monastery with a large duck in his arms... His uncle, who happened to be one of the monks, answered the knock. "Here, uncle, this is...
WHEN I WAS a boy, I had a bike that I had grown tired of... There wasn't anything wrong with it, I just wanted something better...a 10-speed. So I took my fire-engine red, Huffy bicycle, with a white banana seat,...
THIS PAST WEEK, on June 16 the, a major religious body in the United States, at their national convention, voted against two proposals that expressed opposition to all same sex unions... My response to such an action is two-fold: ....
IT SEEMS THAT whenever immoral practices have been outlawed, those who practice or support these immoral activities will inevitably say, "Our government shouldn't legislate morality..." Not too ago these words were spoken with regard to the Texas sodomy laws that...
SOLOMON IS A disturbing biblical character... He begins his reign wisely, blessed by God with an incredible wisdom. God allows him to build a glorious temple. Wealth and wisdom are his; what more could a man want? But instead of...
EVERY 27 MINUTES someone in this country is killed by alcohol... Thirty million families suffer because a father, or a mother, or both are alcoholics. Beverage alcohol kills more than 200,000 Americans each year. 80,000 died at Hiroshima, 35,000 died...
SHORTLY BEFORE HIS death, the Duke of Burgundy was presiding over the Cabinet Council of France... A proposal was made by the ministers that would violate a treaty but would secure important advantages for the country. Many reasons were offered...
JUST BECAUSE WE have the technology to harvest stem cells from aborted babies and do research on them, should we...? The argument is made that the tissue is going to be discarded, so we should use it to benefit mankind...
THE MAJORITY OF Americans seem to believe that all a person has to do in order to go to heaven is be a "good person..." Sure, rapists, drug pushers, and child molesters will be lost; Hitler and Osama bin Laden...
WHY ARE WE surprised that crime soars steadily among juveniles when parents fail to set standards of right behavior in the home, when schoolteachers will not offer a moral opinion in the classroom, either out of fear of litigation or...
ABORTION PROPONENTS ARGUE the taking of a pre-born child's life is not wrong since the unborn do not measure up to the definition of a "person..." A person to them is "one who has good mental and physical health and...