Michael Stuart Heath

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. — St Augustine   Wonder   We have a tendency to think...

And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  — Rich Young Man     Kobe Pierces the Fog of Mortality     It came as a surprise, and without much, if any, warning.  Eight souls passed into eternity...

There are so many wrecked lives and marriages in the West today. — Me, yesterday     He'll Be Back     I mentioned my parents’ sixty year long marriage yesterday in my Shield of Faith COLUMN.  Read it here.   https://michaelheath.org/shield-of-faith-column/a-weekend-on-suffering      The COLUMN...

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. — C.S. Lewis     A Weekend on Suffering     On Friday after I completed my morning Shield of Faith LIVE show I got in our old Nissan SUV...

The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive….The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation. —...

​I am back in the legislature and I hope you are right about the comeback but today, I am not seeing it from here. — Name Withheld to Protect the Innocent   Jesus is the Comeback Kid   Jesus Christ is the comeback kid. Only one world religion worships a resurrected man who is, was and...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. — GK Chesterton Roe Vs Wade: A Life and Death Drama Since 1973 the Shakespearean drama called abortion has played to crowds of millions … tens of millions. When the Supremes...

It's tragic that we live in a country where reporters who are just minding their own business trying to push a narrative can have everything ripped away from them in an instant when protesters refuse to shoot at people. — The Babylon Bee Richmond Remained Political The quote above is satire from...

Spokane Police Sergeant Terry Preuninger said Yaghtin was given numerous opportunities to stay in the protest’s designated area. — KREM2 News Station Spokane Washington   Spokane, Washington: A Time for Blood?   I chose the provocative title above for Friday’s column. The only difference...

Northam said he respects the right of VDCL and other groups to protest gun control legislation in the state but called on them to keep the demonstrations peaceful. — Breitbart, January 15, 2020   Richmond, Virginia: A Time for Blood?   The Left wing of Western politics is deeply...

Enforce the Law Chief Putney — Larry Richardson’s sign in Charlotte NC Yesterday   Hoyle’s Case Dismissed Paulie and I made our second trip to the Charlotte, North Carolina courthouse yesterday.  The first time we went to support Gunnery Sergeant Alan Hoyle in his dispute with the Charlotte...

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.  — Revelation 2:9   The Illuminating Son of Christian Reason I was raised to cherish debate, democracy and opinion....

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces “nice" people, not heroes. — Peter Kreeft   The Mystery of End Times Perhaps the most contentious issue among...

There will be no peaceful change ...We cannot free ourselves from the demons by behaving like gentlemen. Simply put the Left, and the real power behind it, is insane and evil and has to be stopped by ANY means. — Bryan O’Driscoll   Day of the Rope Devon Stack produces YouTubes.  He reviews...

Trump and the Zionists – really? You forgot the white power sign. — A Prominent Jewish Columnist   I’m a Racist!   I opined in the first sentence of yesterday’s Shield of Faith COLUMN, “Donald Trump and the Zionists caused a dust up over the weekend.” I went on to make an argument in...

“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”  — Smedley Butler The Care and Feeding of...

I have just two words for you.  Write them down.  Stop It! -- Bob Newhart Stop It! I’m a patriot.  All three of my sons are patriots.  Two are Sergeants in the United States Marine Corp.  Both of those sons served in Iraq.  They are both out now.  One did four for the Corp.  The other did eight,...

  When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws. — GK Chesterton   Wars of Small Laws     Donald Trump pivoted from billionaire celebrity to the world’s most powerful politician by promising peace. We believed him to be...

The borough has no business overseeing a group of people reading and discussing a book together on private property—even if that book is the Bible. — Randall Wenger, Chief Counsel for the Independence Law Center Because that Book is the Bible A Christian family in Pennsylvania must stop holding a...

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body … here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. —...

Speak loudly and carry on tweet storms Living Great Bold Truthful & Quibbles A hundred years ago America’s foreign policy was guided by a President who described his style of foreign policy as “the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any...

And do we really believe that our fellow men do not also spit out the tepid?  — Anthony Esolen   The Church of Tolerating Everything In his article entitled, “Christians are born for combat: don’t run from that calling” Professor Anthony Esolen writes, “To my ear, the most terrible...

If Democratic leaders didn’t make it repeatedly clear how much they despise this country the Republican Party would be dead by now. — Tucker Carlson, yesterday on FoxNews     Body Blows for Truth Last night Tucker Carlson asked on his popular FoxNews show, “Why is the GOP ignoring the...

Even though Christianity Today voiced all kind of left-wing criticism against Trump, there is one point where the left-wing magazine did not voice a single criticism against Trump: Homosexuality. It was the only issue where Christianity Today exempted Trump.  I was not so lucky. -- Brazilian...

If you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all. — Old saying Echoes I was raised in a unified culture that celebrated a shared history going back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Everyone spoke the English language. The holidays honored high points, and priorities, reaching...