Jerry Newcombe

Jerry Newcombe

CP Op-Ed Contributor

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  • Abortion: Why this issue won't die

    Abortion: Why this issue won't die

    A major reason controversy over abortion will not die is because it was imposed on the American people by judicial fiat.

  • Law and Disorder: Hard to stomach double standard

    Law and Disorder: Hard to stomach double standard

    One of the worst potential outcomes would be to encourage more Christian apathy on politics. It is never a good time to quit doing the right thing, even after major setbacks. After all, as Calvin Coolidge said, “If good men don’t hold office, bad men will.”

  • A worthy goal for the New Year

    A worthy goal for the New Year

    If busy presidents could carve out time to read the Bible, why can’t we? If we’re too busy to read the Bible, then we’re too busy. Period.

  • Is Church 'high risk, low reward'?

    Is Church 'high risk, low reward'?

    All of this leads to an interesting question: What, if anything, do churches contribute to society? Are churches just “high risk, low reward”

  • Always winter, but never Christmas

    Always winter, but never Christmas

    Could you imagine life in such an intolerable state where we had to endure the brutal conditions of the winter season – but never having Christmas to look forward to?

  • American history down the memory hole?

    American history down the memory hole?

    Is this holiday becoming so politically incorrect that one day it will be doomed to be sent down the “memory hole”?

  • Freedom for all ... but the originators of the idea

    Freedom for all ... but the originators of the idea

    So now we have a unique situation in America, where everybody’s tolerated except the ones that came up with the idea.

  • Election integrity

    Election integrity

    The division of powers by the founders was based on their knowledge that man is sinful.

  • Power versus empowerment

    Power versus empowerment

    On the ballot this election season are two different visions for America: government power vs. empowerment of people.

  •  Why I’m a one issue voter

    Why I’m a one issue voter

    It is even the first Creator-given right listed in our nation’s birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence. Without life, how can there be liberty or the pursuit of happiness or the right to property? Or any other right