By Stanley C. Baldwin

It was a day like any other, full of the ups and downs, the annoyances, nagging pains and huge concerns that seem to dog many of us in these troubled times. Marge had gone shopping for school supplies with Zach, our grandson just entering his sophomore year at Rex Putnam High School. She came home afterward, dropped into her recliner, and proceeded to tell me about it.

-- ‘International Burn a Qur‘an Day‘ violates Christ‘s law of love.

MADISON, WI - Glenn Beck promotes a false gospel. However, many of his political ideas can help America.

The "Restoring Honor" rally was a good idea to promote the values of America. However, when Beck ventured into the realm of "revival", his beliefs are open to scrutiny.

SCOTT DEPOT, WV - Fear can invade our minds and hearts when we are very young -- in earliest childhood. It may come as the result of what we have seen, heard or experienced.

A lack of trust and knowledge produces fear. It is easy to be fearful of those whom we do not know.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM - If you ignored today's plaintive cry for help from a hungry and homeless person and you read about their death tomorrow, how would you feel?

I posed that question as a status update on Facebook a few weeks ago, and it generated quite a few responses. They were very telling and quite eye-opening.

“It’s the economy, stupid!” Remember those words? They became, more or less, a campaign slogan for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign when he was running against incumbent George H.W. Bush. Bush’s approval rating in March, 1991 was 90%. His re-election as President seemed to be a “done deal”. But the success Bush had in foreign affairs was not matched by his domestic economic policies. The country had gone into a recession in 1991 and Clinton’s campaign strategist, James Carville, seized upon this crack in Bush’s armor by coining the phrase, “It’s the economy, Stupid!” The constant reminder that the economy, and thus the standard of living for every American, was in danger of declining if Bush were re-elected for four more years, proved a winning formula for Clinton. Bush’s approval rating dropped to 64% by August, 1992 and Clinton set up housekeeping in the White House shortly thereafter.

WASHINGTON, DC - I can't explain what I felt as I watched Dr. Alveda King bounding down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial steps to deliver her speech, "I Too, Have a Dream."

In the moments before I was introduced, I was taken back 47 years to when I was eight years old. I remember that day vividly--sitting on the floor, my back leaning against my father's chair. My eyes were glued to the television. Dr. Martin Luther King had become my hero, he was a deliverer. Even then, my parents seemed worried about his future--would someone try to silence this man of God? Unfortunately, it did happen –we all lost him.

How shall they hear if there is no preacher?

SAN DIEGO, CA - Talking Bibles International produces voice recordings of translated scriptures in hundreds of languages and uploads them onto a device that looks just like a bible but it is a complete audio recording of the bible in their own native tongue.

After World War II, thousands of children were orphaned and in terrible emotional health. Many of these children were brought to orphanages and refugee camps where counselors, foster parents, and wonderful souls tried to begin the healing process. The children all struggled with waking up at night with nightmares of being homeless and hungry again or could not sleep for fear of waking up homeless and hungry.