When Michael [Schiavo] was on the stand for the malpractice suit, he said he wanted to care for Terri the rest of HIS life. Then after the money was in the trust fund he stopped all treatment and remembered Terri wanted to die of starvation.

I think the judges are afraid to let the evidence in Terri’s behalf be heard because then they would be forced to admit they made wrong decisions in Terri’s case from the night she collapsed until now. I really think in a case like this that Terri’s parents should be able to stop this execution of their daughter. This situation makes me sick.

In a recent BWA newsletter, Denton Lotz tells about a Baptist body in Northern India that had been "at war" for several years. Dr. Lotz and some of the BWA staff recently led that group in a reconciliation process and it appears that unity has been restored to a once divided Baptist Convention.

How I long for such a spirit of reconciliation to take place in the Southern Baptist Convention. Though no one has been physically murdered, many Godly men and women have been "slaughtered" on the altar of political control.

I have been personally involved in the BWA for many years serving on the General Council and on commissions and committees. Never have I detected a party spirit and charges that the BWA is influenced by liberalism is patently false. Baptists may disagree on certain issues like the ordination of women or on methodology, but we do not disagree on essential doctrines.

If this be true, then why should the global Baptist family be further fragmented? Why can’t we be big in spirit, in love, in forgiveness, in benevolence toward one another and in repentance ask God to bring renewal to the whole body just as He did with that Baptist convention in India. I pray this will happen and plead with fellow Southern Baptists to keep our historic relationship with the Baptist World Alliance in place.

I went "bonkers," just about as mad as that poor cow we were watching every time the news came on. I asked my senior adult department to pray for me to get over my anger. God told us to be angry and to sin not.

With the Jan. 8 issue of the Witness, you have given us a little better picture than the Times Union did, but it is still ugly. This is not the time for us to debate to the point of division, but to pray more fervently for more witnesses to go into the vineyard.

What now? Nativity scenes are imposing on people’s rights? Get real! Eventually Christ, or Christianity of any kind, will be removed completely from America because we don’t want to offend anyone. This nation was built upon Christianity and if people don’t like this, then they have the right to leave.

Foreigners from all over are welcomed here. That’s great, but that’s all we are obligated to give them, a welcome. Instead, we bend over backwards to give them loans at reduced interest rates to start their own businesses and scholarships to go to school. We let them wear a veil over their faces when taking a driver’s license picture. We have allowed people to take prayer out of school because it offends the atheists, Muslims, Buddhists and whomever.

My great grandparents came over from Syria and I am grateful that the U.S. allowed them to come. They respected what America believed in and never took a dime from this country. They were just happy to be here and free and safe. Americans, if you care about our country, stand up and don’t allow anyone to take "Christ" out of Christmas, or "under God" out of our Pledge, or "In God we trust" from our currency.

When we speak of terrorists, are we referring to the one who is a suicide bomber, killing the innocent or the ones working on the moral decay of our country?

One person was able to get prayer out of school, so maybe one person can bring Christ back into our country.

It could be argued that from a biblical perspective (and we do call ourselves the people of the Book, don’t we?) individual Christians are fully at liberty to pursue social and political issues as they feel directed, but that the church, as a corporate body, is shown by example not to encumber itself with matters of social reform and politics, as so doing hopelessly obscures the Gospel message.

When social reform becomes a church issue, then we see the very strange, even unholy, relationships that emerge under the banner of common cause. But one might ask what common cause does Christianity have with the cultural affairs of the world?

Would it be ungracious to suggest that the vast majority of these discussions might not even be taking place if the church believed that its godly directed duty on earth is the preaching of the Gospel for the salvation of sinners and the teaching of the Word for the edification of the saints? Anything beyond this might well be of the evil one. Since social/political reform of unregenerate society isn’t taught as a church practice in the Bible, perhaps we should ask ourselves why we are trying to do it.