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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...

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America: 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...

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Senums, 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...

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“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...

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The 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...

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Elder 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...

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Netanyahu, 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...

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Harry 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...

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Gay 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...

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Netanyahu’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.

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Her 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,...

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Accommodate 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...

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The 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,...

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Why 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...

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Mitt 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...

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The 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...

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Utah 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...

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Opinion: 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...

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Opinion: 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...

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Mitt 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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