The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore Image: Modlitwa (Prayer)” by Polish artist Antoni Piotrowski There is no shortage of Christians willing to explain what has gone wrong with Western civilization. We can point to the collapse of the family, the abandonment of Christian morality, the loss of reverence, the trivialization of human life, the confusion of liberty with license, the disappearance of any common moral vocabulary, and the increasingly determined effort to remove God not merely

The Christian hope is not that every sorrow will be explained, but that no sorrow can defeat the purposes of God. The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore Image: The Raising of Lazarus by Carl Heinrich Bloch There are few passages of Scripture more frequently quoted in times of suffering than Romans 8:28. It appears on sympathy cards, in funeral homilies, and in conversations with those who have experienced tragedy. Christians repeat it to one another as an assurance that, whatever has happ

by David G. Duggan © www.virtueonline.org December 28, 2025 In my 35 plus years of being a landlord I’ve never had to evict someone–until now. After more than a year of non-payment, and eight months of legal proceedings, the sheriff finally escorted this tenant, and her young child from the apartment they had shared for three years. Welcome to C[r]ook County, IL. Undeterred and defiant, this tenant somehow made her way back to the apartment, dismantling a lock and ripping off

By the Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore www.virtueonline.org August 20, 2025 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us...

Grace is not a suggestion, a boost, or a cooperative handshake—it is the sovereign act of God upon undeserving sinners. The Rev. Dr....

By the Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore www.virtueonline.org August 12, 2025 There is a Latin phrase that thundered through the Reformation like a...