Mailbag

Good without God?

Karen Davis/Exton, Pa.

June 4: Bonnie Pritchett made one of the most profound points I’ve ever read in WORLD Magazine: We have become a nation that equates quality of life with the value of life. This fallacy is used to justify presumed “rights” to abortion, euthanasia, and the end-of-life experience. Tragically, infanticide is next on the slippery slope.

An Army of sights and sounds

Robert Hellam/Seaside, Calif.

June 4: In Maryrose Delahunty’s article about the “Ghost Army,” she mentions “massive 500-pound speakers that could project 15 miles.” That made me think of the absurd amplifiers used in what’s still being called “contemporary worship.”

Pro-life means pro-babies and pro-moms

Bob Wright/Wheaton, Ill.

June 4: I found your interview with Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins inane and even insensitive, especially in asking what her favorite “chant” was and what she does to unwind after a long, hard day of protesting against those who find abortion their only way out of an unwanted pregnancy.

Consuming ideologies

Susan Mackenzie/San Jose, Calif.

June 4: I’m sharing Janie B. Chea­ney’s column with my family and friends who are frustrated but tongue-tied to capture the essence of these “consuming ideologies” in healthy conversations.

Heading to Oceania

Ellie Gustafson/Haverhill, Mass.

June 4: We’re more than halfway to Oceania, and only a genuine miracle can save us. When King David humbled himself after counting his fighting men, God spoke to the avenging angel: “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” May our humbling produce the same result.

Jim McCausland/Port Orchard, Wash.

I think Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn missed the mark when he suggested we walk out of any meeting whose speaker deals in lies, ideological nonsense, or shameless propaganda. Not wanting to be numbered among the cancelers, I think it’s more sensible to speak out than to walk out.

Kathy Connors/Medina, Wash.

Thank you, Andrée Seu Peterson, for pointing out the irony of the Biden administration’s attempt to install a “truth commission.” Thankfully, we have a God of justice and are called to be patient followers.

Sicilian flimflam

Julie Shields/Fayetteville, Ga.

June 4: The fascinating story behind Operation Mincemeat has been told before in an excellent 1956 film The Man Who Never Was. I highly recommend the earlier film, especially if you want to skip the sensuality, blasphemies, and foul language your reviewer warned us of.

Glenn Palmer/Norfolk, Va.

Your review failed to warn of a homosexual scene. Was that even historically accurate, or just thrown in to satisfy some? It certainly was not needed.

Lifting up or tearing down?

Kevin Fong/Beaverton, Ore.

June 4: I was taken aback by Timothy Lamer’s assertion that “mass immigration of low-skilled workers has held back wages among poor Americans (including poor black Americans).” What I have seen is how the exportation of manufacturing and industry has gutted the potential for the average Joe or Jane to make a strong middle-class living. Immigrants have taken jobs, they have accepted jobs, but surely not at the expense of poorer Americans, black or otherwise.

CCM has good niches

Dennis Webber/Tea, S.D.

June 4: Whatever a Christian’s views on the Rapture, Larry Norman’s words in “I Wish We’d All Been Ready” apply just as much, if not more so, today as they did then. I thank the Lord I’m ready now for whatever happens next, because I wasn’t until I heard and responded to the Lord because of Larry’s song.