Disintegration in homeschooling; cultural changes affect groups’ godly mission

An exhibitor at the home education expo in Chattanooga shows four children a printed wonder. The event is held every summer in Camp Jordan. I worked for the homeschool newsletter Esprit before I was married, and a decade ago, as the father of four children, was handed the role of editor. I’ve been thinking lately […]

Texas minister shows TN how to demand interposition in baby slayings

This building is the capitol of Tennessee government. The Rev. Steven Bratton demands officials in Texas — from sheriff’s officers, cops, mayors, lieutenant governors, governors, legislators — stand on God-given authority they possess to halt the slayings of boys and girls at abortion clinics. Babies are slain in seven clinics in Tennessee. In the Volunteer […]

Good riddance to Anderson, whose gay theory poisoned city politics

Chris Anderson, who proposed vampire like searching-out of voters’ intentions in 2014 recall effort, is part of the decline of share value in the gay market. Voters in the city council race sell at a discount— and they’re glad for the loss. They will recapitalize with Erskine Oglesby on the council. (Courtesy Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It

Tears, ideals at Roosevelt’s beloved Sagamore Hill

Sagamore Hill is the home to which Theodore Roosevelt raced at the end of each workday as New York city police commissioner. (Photo Jeannette Tulis) Last week during spring break, I fulfilled a long-time dream of visiting Theodore Roosevelt’s home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, known as Sagamore Hill. By Jeannette Tulis / Esprit newsletter […]

Intern would learn news trade, boost this site, radio platform

Mike Steel, left, and Russell Stroud of Noogaradio assemble an FM radio antenna in the station’s Hixson studio. (Photo David Tulis) Russell Stroud is the news director of Noogaradio and is a story of how an intern becomes a partner. Mr. Stroud, 21, of Ringgold, Ga., has never set foot in a classroom, having been […]

Christianity envisions radical political, economic decentralization

If God blesses the trend toward radical decentralization, Chattanooga city hall will become increasingly important, Nashville and Washington, D.C., less. (Photo David Tulis) The basic premise of localism—and therefore, the basic premise of what I call “County Rights”—is that civil government power should be as decentralized as possible. This is the heart of the program. […]

Does church favoring privatized Christianity get its key essential wrong, too?

The Tennessee supreme court in Nashville is the judicial wing of state government. Neither it nor the federal supreme court “make” law, but the Obergefell gay opinion pretends to have leveled state laws on marriage. Does the gospel speak about limits on state authority? Without reformation, Chattanooga should not expect a better local economy and […]