March 5

‘Cities under siege’

Mindy Belz’s report on the catastrophe in Syria contrasts starkly with Mr. Obama’s obsession with climate change. He claims that funneling huge sums into the hands of politicians and social engineers will save millions from displacement and death, even as millions suffer exactly that because of his weak-kneed foreign policy that ignores red lines, tyrants, and genocide.

George A. Damoff / Farmers Branch, Texas

Hauna Village, Papua New Guinea; submitted by Morris Lappg That is the most heartbreaking and hopefully defiant wedding picture I’ve ever seen.

Jennifer Eason on wng.org

I often wonder how God can relent for another day from pouring out His wrath on wicked humans.

Justin Williams on wng.org

Thank you for your continued coverage of cities once filled with so many souls and now so empty. It’s deeply grieving to think of so many lives isolated and persecuted.

Sarah Krumsieg Underhill on Facebook

The American ideal of a “good life” is, from a spiritual perspective, really a living horror because God warns that a focus on the good life here leads to forgetting Him.

Stephen Paine / Souderton, Pa.

‘Donald the inevitable?’

Anyone who really believes Donald Trump would be worse for the country than Hillary Clinton should vote for Clinton (or some equally noxious leftist). Banging on about a third party, or staying home, or leaving that space blank is just moral preening. I’m not convinced there are any issues on which Trump could possibly be worse than Clinton, and on some he might be better.

John Nixdorf / Naperville, Ill.

As one commentator notes, people are voting for an attitude and not the candidate. Who says he’s worse than Obama, Clinton, or Sanders? Given the choice, I have none; it has to be Trump.

Steve Miller / Alpharetta, Ga.

The Republican Party sowed tares with its wheat, and now the tares are taking over.

Allen Johnson on wng.org

I will likely back the Republican nominee whoever that is; but if it’s Trump, I’ll do so while holding my nose. He would probably lose in November anyway, and Democrats would mop up Senate seats in competitive states.

Daniel McPhearson on wng.org

I don’t know who scares me more: Trump or Sanders. It reminds me of the Lord’s reply to Habakkuk’s lament: I’m going to show you something you wouldn’t believe even if you were told.

David Waarvik on wng.org

‘The big gamble’

Thank you for excellent reporting on the state of Atlantic City. When Trump boasted that he got out at the right time, I cringed. I hope this article helps people see where Trump’s “successful” business mentality can lead.

Erin Long / Atlantic County, N.J.

If building gaudy palaces for vice, fraud, and fornication counts as a sustainable business, then Trump is a success, but he’s a moral failure.

Mark B. Blocher on Facebook

Trump is for Trump. As this article shows, he will use any means, whether eminent domain or bankruptcy, for his own aggrandizement while others are left to pick up the pieces.

Nate Thompson on wng.org

‘Antidote to anarchy’

I am alarmed by Marvin Olasky’s call for more Cuban DNA in our politics. Ted Cruz’s DNA includes a profound inability to get along with his Senate colleagues and a toleration of political dirty tricks. Marco Rubio got into a potty-mouthed playground fight with Trump, and I see no proof he is capable of succeeding in the job.

Dorn Checkley / Pittsburgh, Pa.

Perhaps Olasky is right about the need to see the evil in ISIS and the stand we must take, finally. We can’t cower in fear. God knows what He’s doing.

Melissa DeBruin on wng.org

‘Upside-down headship’

Janie B. Cheaney clearly has a point about false gender complementarianism. I wonder, is there an even bigger issue with men who do not take up their responsibility as the head of the family, and with women who do not let them?

Sven Trenholm / Adelaide, Australia

In my experience, the man who pressures his wife to be more submissive also rebels against God’s call for submission in his own life.

Gilbert Gleason / Portland, Ore.

After reading this column, I must now (tongue in cheek) question myself for forbidding my wife to dye her hair by quoting Isaiah 5:20: “Woe to those ... who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness.”

George Harris / Thousand Oaks, Calif.

‘The spreading plague’

Thank you for this reminder that sin is a plague, and that plagues of all kinds should serve one purpose: to point us straight to God.

Amy Bloyer on wng.org

‘Water worries’

The lead in Flint’s water supply is not a small problem. It’s an instance of government entities—charged with regulating everyone else—not doing essential work they would have required any private company to do, regardless of cost or inconvenience.

Stephen E. Camp on wng.org

‘After Scalia’

I believe that God is sovereign and that Antonin Scalia’s death is part of His good plan to bring glory to His name—but I am very sad.

John Monroe on wng.org

‘Deadpool’

I loved the line that the audience for this movie is not “pubescent geeks—it’s grown-ups with pubescent minds.” I’m sorry Sophia Lee had to sit through it.

Richard DeVries on wng.org

‘Epic renewal’

Risen sounds like a cut above what passes as “biblically based” films and TV, which often inject ridiculous elements, subplots, or visuals. Also, I prefer to think of Joseph Fiennes not from Shakespeare in Love but from his superb lead performance in Luther.

Brian Bara on wng.org

February 20

‘Of virgins and angels’

Marvin Olasky’s recent fictional short stories employ that art of subtlety and silence sorely needed in Christ-exalting movies. Thank you for making us think and use our imaginations.

Vicki Grove / La Grande, Ore.

February 6

‘Stuff of heroes’

Fellow Coast Guard vets and I think The Finest Hours was pretty good and, with some exceptions, true to the life of a Coast Guardsman. When I enlisted in 1952 we were told, “You have to go out; you don’t have to come back.”

Dave Hoff / Barron, Wis.

Corrections

Jerry Falwell Jr. recorded a robocall for the Trump campaign in which he called Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign tactics “dirty” (“Trumping Liberty,” March 19, 2016).

In her best-known renditions of “Amazing Grace,” Judy Collins used John Newton’s original wording: “that saved a wretch like me” (“The TOP gospel,” March 19, 2016).

Clarification

A federal racketeering lawsuit filed against two former leaders of Mars Hill Church in Seattle refers to the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability as a “co-conspirator,” but the ECFA is not a defendant in the case (Human Race, March 19, 2016).

WORLD Around the World

Hauna Village, Papua New Guinea

Submitted by Morris Lapp