Recently, President Joe Biden announced that he would erase student debt up to $10,000 for every person making less than $125,000 in income. For those who receive a Pell Grant, their debt elimination would rise to $20,000.  The decision by the president to unilaterally spend $330-$800 billion of taxpayers’ money will have tremendous implications. Some say that those implications will be beneficial. Others say they will be detrimental to the

In the summer, the state forced a smaller school system to consolidate with a much larger school system nearby. The high school of the smaller school system no longer had a football team but was forced to become a part of the larger school’s football team. This was disturbing to the students of the smaller school because the year before the cheerleaders had gotten new cheer uniforms, pom poms and

Billy Graham began his message to my seminary chapel with a disclaimer. He said that he had been so pressed for time and travel that he hadn’t had time to prepare his message. He added that he had asked the Holy Spirit to just fill him. He was fully aware that seminary students had jobs, pastored or worked in the church and had full-time class loads.  Then, Graham changed his

In June, the Supreme Court ruled in Carson v. Makin that the government must treat religious people the same as everyone else when distributing governmental benefits.  The case involved a Maine law that provided tuition assistance for students in rural areas that do not have high schools so the students could attend private schools or public schools in neighboring counties.  However, Maine prohibited the assistance from going to schools that

Baptist Press posted a disturbing story on Aug. 22 about the Bible being temporarily removed from school libraries in Keller, Texas. See story at baptistandreflector.org. The Keller school district was quick to respond to an inquiry from Baptist Press. “Books that have been challenged by community members as being inappropriate for schools are required to be removed from shelves and held in a Parental Consent Area until the challenge process