Tag Archives: Police

I remember the old television drama Hawaii Five-0, from my childhood. Beginning in 1968, Detective Captain Steve McGarrett put his life on the line, along with his officers, fighting crime in the nation’s 50th state. The show left its mark on our culture: “5-0” is now the term used for ...

Fifty-one years after a Republican majority senate passed the Civil Rights Act, why are racial tensions in the United States apparently worse than ever? If the nation has twice elected a black president, why are we only a step away from what feels like a boiling point? Spiritual warfare, the ...

Times of unrest have great potential for building faith–individually as well as nationally.  Words without substance are deadly;  life dusts off our pretenses.  That is something to celebrate!  The history of “In God We Trust” reveals the process beautifully!  Just seven months after the first shots were fired in the ...

Long gone are the days when you can flip on the TV at any given hour and watch a show with the entire family curled up on the couch. For conservative viewers, cable programming leaves much to be desired. The lack of decency, crude humor, language and gore has left ...

A video recently went viral, of police officers in Texas using force on a group of African American teens at a pool party. One officer literally manhandled a teenage girl, forcefully throwing her to the ground and kneeling on top of her. He also aimed his gun at several unarmed ...