The Christian longs for the Kingdom of God.
(Any Christian knows the answer to the issue of what is the only hope on earth, and that is Jesus. I remain an old-school, gun-totin’, pro-life conservative, although I am less married to the “country” side of “God-and-Country”: while I would maintain that America is the greatest country in world history this side of the era of Joshua in Israel 1.0, I do not see America as “the last great hope on earth”, as Reagan once said of her. I was a hardcore conservative all the way. I received monthly newsletters from Beverly LaHaye and Phyllis Schlafly. I gave money to Concerned Women for America and Eagle Forum. I started a pro-life group at my alma mater.Īfter graduation, I became very involved in pro-life causes: a crisis pregnancy center, a maternity home, and a county Right to Life chapter. In my senior year, my Sunday School teacher’s wife recruited me to the front lines of the pro-life cause. Homosexuality–heck, all sex outside of marriage–was evil.ĭuring my college years, I occasionally listened to James Dobson’s radio program. I was an old-school God-and-country Cold War conservative. Especially Falwell.įor a time, I received Falwell’s newsletters. I remember listening to other preachers on those radio networks. I remember listening to Jerry Falwell in the early 1980s: I listened to “The Old Time Gospel Hour”. The church circles we frequented for the ensuing three years shared most of those sentiments.ĭuring my un-churched years–January 1979 through September 1985–most of my exposure to Christian preaching was via radio. She was very patriotic, pro-life, pro-“traditional values”. M was a longtime, old-school Reagan supporter while being very supportive of the Civil Rights movement. My Christian journey began in 1976 when I was 9: my first stepmother–M–had aligned with the Church of God (Cleveland, TN).
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