Author: Star Parker

Among the pearls of wisdom conveyed in Ecclesiastes is that everything has its time. “A time to be born … a time to die, a time to plant … a time to uproot, a time for war … a time for peace.” The founders of the United States drew up a Constitution to serve as […]

According to a new Gallup poll, 55 percent of Americans say they have little to no confidence that they can rely on mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly.” Forty-six percent say the media is too liberal and just 13 percent think it’s too conservative. Justification for this public sentiment is evident […]

Whether we are talking about respect for a nation or for an individual, nothing undermines respect more than duplicity — saying one thing and acting differently. I think it is a big reason why President Barack Obama’s Tuesday speech to the nation, in which he attempted to explain why he has proposed military action in […]

An important new book has recently been published which addresses the question of global poverty, but does so by provoking the reader to also consider our own nation and demand that we better understand ourselves and the wellsprings of our own success. Two evangelical Christians have teamed up, one an economist and one a theology […]

One potential benefit that can come from last week’s March on Washington 2013, which commemorated the 1963 civil rights event, is the various data publicized about the current state of affairs of black America vis a vis the rest of the country. In particular, it has been an eye opener for many to see how […]

Looking over the program for the festivities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, it’s hard to not feel sober about the whole thing. I say sober because there is good news and bad news. What’s the good news? […]