First Time Voting I registered to vote on my eighteenth birthday this summer. It wasn’t hard. All I had to do was drive to County Square, follow the signs to Voter Registration, and fill out a form. There was no line on that Wednesday afternoon. It was quiet. The employee who helped me was polite, but not terribly enthusiastic. I, however, struggled to contain my enthusiasm like a legal adult should. Smiling like a fool, I whizzed through the paperwork and forgot to put my signature at the bottom of the form, which the rational employee had to politely remind me to do. After ten minutes in that unexciting gray office, it was done. Waiting until my voter registration card showed up in the mailbox was all I had left to do. Roughly a week and a half later (not that I was… read more

The Body of Christ at Work Few of us expected Hurricane Helene to be as destructive as it turned out to be when it hit on Friday, September 27. In rural upstate South Carolina, many homes and businesses are still without power. There was a serious rush for gasoline for the next three days immediately following the storm. Trees lay across the roofs of some houses, and I’ve seen one house completely split down the middle by fallen timber. Those who weren’t prepared found themselves in long, wending lines for fast food at the few restaurants open. People need help. And in this unforeseen situation, it has been an unexpected joy to watch my community pull together. Perhaps you’ve heard about how rude, selfish, and sometimes violent people have been at grocery stores and gas pumps. After … read more

We may talk a lot about free speech, but there is a reason for that. Hillary Clinton Says the Truth Hillary Clinton promoted the left’s line of thinking the other day while being interviewed by Rachel Maddow. On September 16th, X poster End Wokeness posted a short clip of Hillary Clinton’s interview, and the video is making the rounds as it raises eyebrows. In it, Hillary Clinton said plenty of things that would rile a range of people, from crazy deplorable right-wingers to extremist thinkers who believe in the First Amendment. She stated, “I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda, and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged, is something that would be a better deterrent…” The irony is rich… read more

Spend enough time online and you may just end up cross-eyed. At this rate, not only am I four-eyed, cross-eyed, and glassy-eyed, but I’m red-eyed. (That’ll make sense in a moment.) I’ve come to realize what these eyes are seeing is the entrenchment of the new religion. To cover the Democratic National Convention on the podcast, I sat staring at an endless stream of X posts questioning Harris and Walz, rejecting the Democrat party, and proclaiming the thoughts of those who are tired of corruption, lying, and misinformation. But what stuck out to me the most about the DNC was the entrenchment of a religion adversarial to Christianity. This adversarial religion begins with the worship of self, but where it ends could be absolute destruction. … read more

Lately, the news has been filled with horror stories of governments attempting to repress the speech of their citizens (or those from around the world). From the UK putting 61-year-old men in jail for a year and a half over comments at a protest to EU commissioners threatening to bring the law against American billionaires for allowing “misinformation” on their platform; these stories have captivated anyone paying attention. Oftentimes, people living in America sit back with a cold drink and watch the drama unfold as though it were a daytime soap opera. After all, we live here in America, where we have the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment, bald eagles, and Donald Trump. But can we rely on that protection while being passive about it? Is it truly something the US government… read more