Opinion: Is This the King They’ve Been Waiting For?
Editor’s Note: This is another in a series of excerpts from the book “The War in Heaven Continues: Satan’s Tactics to Destroy You, Christianity, the Family, the Constitution, and America” by Gary...
View ArticleAmerica: Great Promise, Terrible Curse
Editor’s Note: This is another in a series of excerpts from the book “The War in Heaven Continues: Satan’s Tactics to Destroy You, Christianity, the Family, the Constitution, and America” by Gary...
View ArticleSenums, Senines and … Barley? Why Alma 11?
About five years ago I wrote a column for Meridian about money (ideally both a medium of exchange and a store of value) that is durable, divisible, and even digestible. Given the wobbly footing of...
View Article“Nuts!”
It must have been so humiliating. There you are, daughter of the CEO of Korean Air Lines, and a flight attendant in the first-class section serves you a pre-takeoff snack of macadamia nuts … in an...
View ArticleThe Arc of History – The Worship of a False God
Russia is on the march again led by a once-humiliated KGB apparatchik determined to recreate the glories and empire of the Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin took the provinces of South Ossetia and...
View ArticleElder Holland’s Verbs
The lifeblood of a speech is the verb. Knowing that a verb connoisseur with Maxwellian talent would be speaking at Chapman University in Orange, California a week ago last Thursday, my wife Jan and I...
View ArticleNetanyahu, Obama, and … Zechariah?
A front-page Wall Street Journal article last Thursday described a potentially ominous shift in relations between the United States and Israel: “The White House upended decades of U.S. policy on...
View ArticleHarry Reid and the increasingly rare Mormon Democrat
When Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) steps down from the Senate in early 2017, Mormonism will lose its highest-ranking elected official — and the most high-profile example that yes, there is such a thing as a...
View ArticleGay Marriage – A Surprise Factor in Spreading the Gospel
The Church does not approve gay marriage and never will. But I believe that the Lord, in a judo-like way, is using this disruptive issue to actually advance His work. Though we wish attacks on the...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s Statement Regarding the Deal with Iran
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reasons for criticizing the deal with Iran, calling it a mistake of historic proportions.
View ArticleHer New Kentucky Home
For an alternative opinion on this controversial issue, click here. Prominently featured in recent news, Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples,...
View ArticleAccommodate Conscientious Objectors to Same-Sex Marriage
Religious conservatives who are against same-sex marriage have responded in different ways to Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses under her name to...
View ArticleThe continuing train wreck of Obamacare
The following was written by Stan Rasmussen. In a recent column, Guy Benson cites recent reports in The Hill, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times detailing the “story out of Kentucky,...
View ArticleWhy the New Policy for Children of Same Sex Marriages Protects Childhood
My Wish for Children If I could make wishes and those wishes would come true, my wishes would be for the children, for all children. My wishes would be these: I wish for an unhurried childhood lived...
View ArticleMitt Romney: Obama must wage war on the Islamic State, not merely harass it
Mitt Romney, writing in The Washington Post notes Obama said that ISIS was contained just hours before the horrific terrorist attack in Paris that killed 129. Romney said, “Now…we know just how wrong...
View ArticleThe Real Trouble with Trump
The trouble with Trump is not his bombast nor his name calling nor his choice of inflammatory topics. People get over that. Nor is it his policies. Currently, his critics who call him names about his...
View ArticleUtah Gov. Herbert is right to stand by Planned Parenthood defunding decision
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Last month, a group of legislators called on Governor Gary Herbert to start channeling taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood again. The...
View ArticleOpinion: What is Romney’s End Game in Criticizing Trump?
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Editor’s Note: As is ever the case on Meridian Magazine, the opinions represented in this article belong to the author and do not...
View ArticleOpinion: Anti-Trump Voters Should Pray Trump Wins Florida and Ohio
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Image via Politico. Editor’s Note: As is ever the case on Meridian Magazine, the opinions represented in this article belong to the author...
View ArticleMitt Romney’s Concern for America
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. The vitriol heaped upon former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney this past week is entirely illogical and irrational. It only makes...
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