Jerry Newcombe

Jerry Newcombe

CP Op-Ed Contributor

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  • Pray for the Persecuted Church

    Worldwide, about 200 million Christians are at risk, simply for being Christians. This is true in the dominant Muslim countries and the remnant Communist countries, e.g., China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba.

  • Since When Is Marriage a Joke?

    Marriage is becoming a joke in our society. Take the example of reality-TV star Kim Kardashian and her marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries, which lasted all of 72 days.

  • Houston, We Have a Problem

    Political correctness in modern America continues to run amuck. The latest front is at the Veterans Administration’s Houston National Cemetery. Can someone pray in the name of Jesus at a public event? Apparently not

  • A Happy Marriage in a Post-Marital Society

    I have 31 years of empirical evidence that I married a saint. My wife has now put up with me ever since we wed on June 28, 1980.

  • All Gay All the Time

    A Martian who visited modern America today might well think that half the population was homosexual—and the other half wished it were.

  • 'Don't Know Much About History'

    A recent survey finds that many of our young people are failing to learn basic facts of our nation’s history. That’s scary because if we don’t know where we came from, we don’t know where we are going.

  • End of the World on May 21? Let's Talk About It – on May 22!

    The latest prophets of doom have managed to get their message out in a series of billboards and bus ads. It’s tragic to me that the watching world looks at such predictions that come and go and just laugh

  • Was Jesus a Socialist? O'Donnell Rushes to Judgment

    Does the Bible teach socialism? Or, more specifically, did Jesus advocate socialism?

  • Fast-Food Mayhem Signals Need for 'Religion'

    Recently, total strangers have been fighting each other, usually in fast food restaurants. These tragic incidents have been caught on video, have been posted on the Internet, and “have gone viral.”

  • He is Risen, Indeed!

    The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the greatest fact in human history. Yet throughout the centuries to our present time, skeptics have argued against the historical reliability