Making Life Work

From Ronald L. Dart's Born to Win notes.

    If you asked 100 people where the expression “free love” came from, I doubt you would find more than one person who knows. I surely didn’t. I thought it originated back in the 60s with the flower children. But I was wrong. The term originated in the 1850s in a religious commune in Oneida, New York. Called the Oneida Community by some and the Oneida Experiment by others, it was an experiment with sexual freedom under religious auspices, and quoting Scripture for its justification.

    I’m not sure what sent me looking for this, but I found an article in Touchstone Magazine titled, The Oneida Experiment, What We Have Discovered About Not-So-Free Love, by Frederica Mathewes- Green. Oneida was founded...

By: Ronald L. Dart

See "The Christian Woman" by Ronald Dart

    Relatively few Christian sects these days prohibit women from wearing makeup. Most of those that do seem to be holdovers from another era when "respectable" women in society did not wear makeup. Some of these groups still try to find biblical support for their position and quite forcefully forbid women to wear makeup in church; some forbid the wearing of it at any time.

    It is of singular importance to note that nowhere does the Bible specifically forbid women to wear makeup. It is not mentioned at all in the law of God or the teachings of Christ. All of the reasons advanced for not wearing makeup are inferences from prophetic writings. There are four principal scriptures that are advanced.

By: Linda G. Gallia 

     I have a confession. Someone put up a link to the song “How Deep Is Your Love” by the Bee Gees on an Internet forum that I participate in from time to time. It was just a fun discussion some were having. I was a teenager in the 70s when the Bee Gees were popular and I enjoyed some of their music very much and still do. I clicked on the link so I could hear the song. About half way through the song I started to think about the title of the song and the question it asks. I began to think of it in relation to how deep God’s love is for us. I know the song was not written to invoke these kinds of thoughts but, for some reason, it did for me this time.

    I didn’t understand at first why tears began streaming down my face....