Category: Classic Citizen
Who to Vote For
Take time and do the work to be informed about issues and candidates. It’s not possible to learn everything, but use available tools (television, radio,...
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A Day to Remember
Every year, millions of Christians in the U.S. mark the National Day of Prayer—the first Thursday in May—by turning to the Lord, imploring Him to...
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Be Ye Angry, and Sin Not
“You’re a liar.” “No, you are.” Billy is a jerk. Billy and I grew up on the same street in Levittown, N.Y., and I remember this thought flying...
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Anti-Change Agents
When Ken Williams was 17, he felt suicidal. He was plagued by homosexual desires that he didn’t want and which conflicted with his Christian faith....
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Legalized Sports Gambling Is a Bad Bet
Almost 100 years ago, eight Chicago White Sox players were given lifetime bans from Major League Baseball for consorting with gamblers to throw the 1919...
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Danger in Their Pockets
When Wren Mason* woke to headlights flashing on and off through her bedroom window in the middle of the night, she knew something was wrong....
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AB 2943 Awakening a Giant
In July, I walked up to Assemblyman Evan Low, D-San Jose, and introduced myself as Pastor Jim Domen, a former homosexual who was transformed and...
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From Hooking Up to Real-Life Dating
Humans are made for community. Whether it’s the family unit a child is born into or the friends he or she makes in school, the...
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Suicide Prevention Begins at the Spiritual Level
Suicide is the third-leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15 and 24, and the fourth-leading cause of death among 10- to...
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Bringing God’s Hope to School—with Bibles
Campus shootings and the violent bullying of students by their classmates have dominated much of the headlines lately—leaving many kids feeling as if a permanent...
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To Adopt a Brothel
HUMAN TRAFFICKING. It’s an intimidating term. According to the Global Slavery Index of 2016, an estimated 40.3 million people are trafficked around the world—and a...
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Why Men Matter
In an August 2012 New York Times article, author Greg Hampikian made the point that “women are both necessary and sufficient for reproduction, and men are neither.”...
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A Mom’s Tips For Raising A Kind, Compassionate Man
As a mom of two (my daughter is 24 and my son 18), I have experienced the journey of raising both a boy and a...
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Made in God’s Image
Feminism. Maybe the word conjures images of angry women, fighting for things you find unbiblical, or maybe it reminds you of efforts to emasculate men....
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Close to Home
If you think you don’t know anyone whose life has been touched in some way by the opioid crisis currently ravaging our country, chances are...
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Dangerous Prescriptions
Karl Benzio, M.D., says the reason the U.S. is currently experiencing a disastrous epidemic of opioid abuse can be summed up in two words: Pain...
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Collateral Damage
No child left behind” is a familiar catchphrase. But to Jill Kingston, a 40-year-old foster mother in Kettering, Ohio, the words have nothing to do...
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A System on the Brink
Please, take him back. You have to. Please.” Elisa Winter’s emotions were raging. She loved her foster son as if he was her own. After all,...
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Occupational Hazards
If you’re not a first responder—for example, a police officer, a firefighter, an emergency medical technician or member of the military—try to imagine what it’s...
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Taking It to the Streets
The opioid crisis has hit hard in Macomb County, Mich. Composed of 27 Detroit suburbs, the county has the state’s second-highest opioid-overdose death rate, more...
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Troubling Vital Signs
How much more can emergency rooms handle? The most recent numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), spanning 45 states, show...
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And Then There Were None
“We’ll never be whole again.” Jim Moser of East Kingston, N.H., says he and his wife Jeanne were left forever fractured by the death of...
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All For One
After spending 24 hours with two foster babies in 2014, former Ohio schoolteacher Jill Kingston had an epiphany. Maybe it was triggered by the absolute...
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