by Pastor Chris Dion, FSM Advisory Board Member

Congressman John Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders and leaders of the Selma March, passed away July 17, 2020. Thinking of him and all he and other Freedom Riders accomplished, I wonder . . . what has happened to their dreams and visions?

The difference between the Freedom Riders, the Bus Boycott, and the Freedom March and the protestors of today are stark. Those who led the civil rights  movement of the 60s were leaders. They left no delusion or misunderstanding as which people were a part of their protest and which ones were taking advantage of civil unrest. They fought for the health of the nuclear family, not to destroy it. They fought to level the playing field, not divide it.

by Julie Ganschow, Ph.D, FSM Senior Advisory Board

Slavery is alive and well in the United States of America.

            This is a shocking statement, and you may be wondering what I am talking about. I am not referring to the disgusting practice of enslaving men and women brought on ships from Africa. We fought a war over that issue and won. Instead, I am referring to the practice of sex trafficking fueled by the massive influx of illegal crossings at our southern border.

Sex trafficking occurs when one human being is bought or sold to another human being to engage in commercial sex acts against his or her will. This is the legal definition: “Sex trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which individuals perform commercial sex through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.”

by: Pastor Neal Grogan, USMC Retired, MDiv in Biblical Counseling & Pastor Matt Statler US Army Retired, MDiv in Biblical Counseling

Drill instructors often boast that they know more games than Milton Bradley, the makers of Monopoly. Any service member has distinct memories of the games they would play. One of the most common is when a drill instructor from another platoon finds his or her way to a platoon that is not their own and strives to cause chaos among the recruits, telling them to do things that are out of step with what their true drill instructor wants for them. When the real drill instructor of the platoon sees this, he or she immediately gives commands contrary to what the false instructor has been providing. At that moment, competing counsel occurs. What will the recruits do? How will they respond? Ten times out of ten the recruits hear the trusted voice and cease to listen to the false instructor, wanting to execute only the commands of their actual instructor.