Author of A Time To Kill
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 […]