Reader Comments

Editor: Thanks for your “Christian Unity” issue. Keep up the good work. Shannon Reeves

Editor: “Christian Unity” is nicely done. You finessed the premature release of the Anglican material I originally sent and put it into its proper context. And your explanation of Christian tolerance is elegantly simply and very clear. Best, Joseph A. Morris

Editor: Very good article on “Christian Unity.” There is an interesting article on the Opinion Journal web site about Biblical interpretation of divorce by David Instone-Brewer on April 6, 2007. Something the Church should think about. Grounds for divorce would be adultery, neglect--emotional and physical, abandonment and abuse. Hope you had a pleasant Easter, Tim Sullivan

Editor: Thanks for the very interesting article on “Christian Unity,” especially for Easter. Rich Byman

Editor: “Christian Unity” is an interesting article with a very optimistic outlook. In reality, a biblically sound definition of Christian would separate out many of the so called "Christian Denominations" leaving true Christians who could in fact unite. However, Catholics would be excluded by definition and would not change anyway for union. Union with the Catholic Church would require all joining denominations to bow to the doctrines of the Catholic Church, which would obviate the results of the Protestant Reformation. Dream on. The only union of Christians will truly be the meeting of the believers in the air with our Lord at the rapture. John Roush

Editor: Contrary to your “Christian Unity,” the history and evolution of the visible Christian church with its many denominations cannot be viewed as the real church. The real Christian church consists exclusively of those individuals who have trusted alone in Jesus Christ for their salvation (not in their own good deeds). Many of these individuals are not members of any denomination. But Christ knows who they are and they know that they belong to Him. Christian unity is a question of individual Christ-like character development through Faith in Jesus and Obedience to what He has told us to do. Jeff Tucker

Editor: Regarding your editorial, “Christian Unity,” Christian unity can only be achieved by adherence to the Bible. Groups that add man's ideas to the scriptures (Enlightenment, etc) cannot be part of a unity with a denomination that considers the scriptures to be the ONLY rule of faith and practice. Organic union on any other basis only joins secular groups in a man centered religion. Frank Ells

Editor: Your article “Christian Unity” was well expressed. Thank you. I recently came to the conclusion that “a religion" is good for the individual person but it is bad for society. The deeper religion gets into dogma, the wider the divide. Some of our forefathers’ beliefs led them to spiritual Unitarianism, a common simple belief in a deity and willingness to treat others as you would want them to treat you--a base point for a society with a conscience to establish social moral and ethical beliefs which ennoble all society. People would recognize the difference between their religion and a society: but would the religious leaders? Charles Fisenne

Editor: I have actually taught Biblical allusions under the form of rhetorical devices and literary terms for years, because students cannot read any Western literature without them. Juniors and seniors in high school and freshmen in college do not know who Moses is, what 40 days and 40 nights mean, the crown of thorns, etc. Worse maybe, if they have some inkling of Moses, they think he "invented the Ten Commandments". I just had a student write me that sentence. I will say outright to my classes that I cannot tell them what to believe, but if they want to achieve in reading literature or even understand the evening news, they have to have a good comprehension of Biblical allusions. Although I am not particularly a conspiracy nut, I do believe the decades-long opposition to any mention of religion in public schools by leftists like the ACLU is the destruction of the foundations of Western arts (and civilization). If you are not cognizant, the same leftist assault is occurring in archeology to "prove" Solomon and David (10th and 11th Centuries BC) never existed and, ergo, Israel never was a state; therefore, today Israel should not be a state. Renny Hartmann, adjunct professor, Ocean County College (formerly honors teacher public schools)

Editor: Bill Sizemore has written an absolutely excellent treatment of a problem that cannot seem to get traction in our country in his “Reforming the Schools.” We sit idly on the sidelines as our school children are denied opportunities to learn, as our country descends into "third-world" mediocrity and as this nation becomes less and less competitive in this world of rapid change. Thank you, NEA (WEA in Washington) for your blindly selfish approach to your own needs instead of to your responsibility for the education of our children. Eynon Hughes

Editor: Hurrah for Bill Sizemore’s “Reforming the Schools”! It is what Thinking People Everywhere are Saying! Susan C. Sherman

Editor: The link for 'The Great Global Swindle' is not available. Wanda Wikoff [Editor replies: The site was taken down after publication. A new link is on site at http://www.veoh.com/videos/v291101Y8Pqys52]