America Never a Christian Nation?

By: Pastor Rod Schorr
Published: 2/26/12

These past few weeks, I’ve been confronted more than once with the question: ‘Is it true what people are saying these days? That America was never a Christian nation?’ I guess that’s the latest ‘mantra’ these days, being tweeted and blogged and ‘liked’ on the internet and bandied about in untellectual circles.

Surely our President’s own comments, back in 2007, helped foster the notion. In a speech to the Christian Broadcasting Network back in June of that year, he confidently announced that: “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation, or at least ‘just’ a Christian nation. We are a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation and a notion of non-believers.” Read more…

The Sirens of Our Age

By: Pastor Rod Schorr
Published: 2/17/12
Homer’s Odyssey is filled with memorable episodes, of course, but, by far, the most unforgettable, I believe, is the Island of the Sirens. It shows up in the twelfth book and it is certainly one of Homer’s masterpiece moments. Read more…

Tenacity of Andean Proportions

Ed. Note: Pastor Rod is out the office this week. We include one of his articles from 2006.)
By: Pastor Rod Schorr

I‘ll admit that, as a kid, I used to laugh at them once in a while, but it didn’t take long for me to learn that the dumbest people on earth tell ‘Polish jokes’. (All you have to do is read!) I mean, let’s see…what exactly do we have here? One of history’s greatest scientists (Copernicus); one of the world’ s greatest composers (Chopin); one of the world’s greatest Read more…

It’s Closer Than You Think

Published on: January 13, 2012
By: Pastor Rod Schorr

Yikes! It’s here! 2012! The year the Mayans said would be our last! The year that has thrilled conspiracy theo- rists and apocalypse mongers for over a decade already. It’s even inspired a dooms day movie. Well, we’ve lasted two weeks so far. Let’s all be thankful for that. As a matter of fact, the Mayans never said anything of the kind. All we really know is that…well, I’ll just let Dan Piraro go to bat on that one. Isn’t this a classic? Used by gracious personal permission from him by the way; thank you Dan! (You can visit his website by clicking the link below). Read more…

A Gift At the Door

Published on: December 25th, 2011
By: Pastor Rod Schorr

Let me start from the beginning… I was fifteen and a half, with a permit to drive—as long as an adult was with me too— and just absolutely thrilled when my sister Sue came into my room one day and said: “I’m going skiing up at Park City, Utah, next week with some of the sorority girls; want to come along? We might even let you drive.” Are you kidding? Oh, man! Did I feel honored! College kids wanted me to go along? It was the week before Christmas and my older Sis couldn’t have given me a better gift! Read more…