Mailbag

‘Oaks in the city’

July 9 | If only schools such as The Oaks Academy were all over America. The school is exposing these students to diversity and educating them about the importance of being governed by biblical truth to maintain liberty, especially in a country like America. This is something that the statists, who can only bring bondage, dissent, and contention, will never understand.

—Paul B. Taylor on wng.org

Your Hope Award series is one of the best things you do. By it we see God is working all over the place, and we see how God is working!

—Heinrich Erbes / McLean, Va.

‘Disappearing evangelicals’

July 9 | Joel Belz is correct. We have a dearth of real Christian leadership because Christians on the right and left hold up rights to money, to our bodies, and to our own national power above responsibility to God. Our nation is now reaping what it has been sowing for years.

—JennyBeth Gardner on wng.org

I don’t buy the premise that there aren’t qualified men to lead our country; there are loads of them, both in politics and in business. And if Ted Cruz falls into the category of having a “meager” resumé, that’s a pretty high bar. Isn’t the real question, “Where are the evangelical voters?”

—William Peck on wng.org

I don’t believe it’s possible in this current cultural climate to elect an outwardly evangelical president. It’s not a failing in the evangelical community; I believe God is giving our country what we want. Christians need to take cover.

—Mary Ann Lamb on wng.org

I see this election as less of a rejection of evangelical candidates than a rejection of career politicians. Evangelicals turned out for Trump because he was the only candidate with enough courage to address things as they truly are. Where are our Martin Luthers who will go for the jugular and not relent or apologize?

—Eric Eagle on wng.org

The issue isn’t a lack of qualified evangelical candidates. Christians need to accept a hard, cold fact: We’re a very thin slice of the minority. The majority does not want a candidate that resembles Jesus in any way, shape, or form. I’ve given up trying to persuade anyone.

—Todd Finch on wng.org

You are wasting your time trying to figure out why evangelicals are MIA from affecting politics—or anything else—in our country. The American people are voting for their sin. No amount of preaching will change their minds.

—Phillip Woeckener / Tallahassee, Fla.

‘Fatal connections’

July 9 | How is it that, despite mounting evidence, the Clintons seem always to avoid the negative press that their dealings and associations demand? Imagine a Bush having this history and getting away with it.

—Clarke McIntosh on wng.org

It puts a knot in my stomach to think an American, especially such a prominent one, could be so wicked. Before reading this I could not understand why the State Department would not give “terrorist” status to the most deserving candidate on earth before ISIS. Well done.

—Vic Tripp / Tucker, Ga.

I pray that the Lord will bring swift justice to Boko Haram leader Imam Abubakar Shekau.

—John Clogston on wng.org

‘Admission of function’

July 9 | Thanks for sharing how Francis Collins recently refuted his term “junk DNA.” God doesn’t make junk, and finally Collins had the integrity to admit it.

—Michael Dumez / Oostburg, Wis.

Collins chose the right word, hubris, to describe his earlier assertion. I hope he sees the correlation between this incident and his refusals to take Scripture at its word: “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth.”

—Philip Brown on wng.org

‘Rocket man’

July 9 | Excellent biographical article. It kept me captivated from the first paragraph, and what an ending!

—Deborah O’Brien on wng.org

‘Keeping our terms straight’

July 9 | You mentioned that if we accept the phrase, “I feel I’m a man trapped in a woman’s body,” we’re signing on to an unbiblical physiology. I have to say that I was there, trapped in a woman’s body. Fortunately, after my mother gave birth I was free.

—Bob Shillingstad / Hayden, Idaho

‘Beastly analyses’

July 9 | In a world gone mad, Chase Strangio’s tweet blaming the Christian right for the Orlando massacre is a sad sound bite. Ignorance is not bliss, and makes for bizarre thinking.

—Kelly Mays Wilson on Facebook

‘An intertwining’

July 9 | Andrée Seu Peterson’s column about Terri Roberts is one of her best. My husband and I wept reading “it is all plan … it is all centre. Blessed be He!” We needed the reminder of the importance of forgiving and to cast our burden on Christ.

—Susan Dickens / Greenbrier, Ark.

‘Finding others’

July 9 | I just saw Finding Dory and I agree—it was great. Also, it’s far too uncommon that a movie both has a good, entertaining story and doesn’t leave me wincing at some content.

—Laura Weieneth on wng.org

‘Happy days?’

July 9 | Most of what the Antifederalists warned against has happened. We have had a strong central government since the end of the Civil War, and our freedoms have been gradually eroded since then. I think we are now at the point of no return.

—Toby Comeaux on wng.org

‘Freedom of speech’

July 9 | A universal translator in a wireless earpiece! It’s Star Trek ahead of its time!

—Claire Johnson on Facebook

‘Bridal gown’

June 25 | Thank you for the beautiful portrayal of our future as the Bride of the Lamb and our present public battles and private struggles as the “stitch and fold and appliqué” of our wedding dress. Your description gave me hope for the future and helped me see the beauty of the present.

—Twila Brase / St. Paul, Minn.

More letters, emails, and comments that we didn't have space for in the print edition:

‘Disappearing evangelicals’

July 9 | It is not a lack of good men and women running for office; it is that the majority in this country does not desire righteous leaders. How else do you explain the horrible choice we are facing?

—Janet Seagraves on wng.org

When Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it,” could he have imagined a populace that would not even want it? Unless pastors lead their congregations in repentance in a host of areas, including stewardship of the freedoms purchased for us with blood, like Joel Belz I’m not sure there’ll be a next time.

—Don Stroud / Leander, Texas

‘Beastly analyses’

July 9 | Islam is a religion of peace—to fellow Muslims.

—Glenn Howell on Facebook

‘Bridal gown’

June 25 | It’s so good to see someone writing about heaven and heavenly things instead of earthly things.

—Dick Muller / Oak Ridge, Tenn.

‘Standing in line’

June 25 | Although waiting in lines seems like an inconvenience, is there not more room for gratitude than complaint? I am 43. I have heard of bread lines but never yet stood in one. And what of lines at the airport? Our ancestors walked, or maybe rode horses. And how many times does Scripture admonish us to "wait on the Lord"? Yes, God created us for good works, but is the highest goal to be more productive? Remember how Mary chose “the good portion” and sat at Jesus’ feet.

—Angie Carman / Liberty, Ky.

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