A gracEmail subscriber has asked for my comments, as an attorney and a Christian teacher, regarding the controversy surrounding the installation of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Judicial Building and the federal judge's order to remove the monument on which they are inscribed. * * * Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is much in the news lately. As a trial court judge, he hung a framed copy of the Ten Commandments in his Alabama courtroom. More recently, as the highest-ranking judge in his state, Mr. Moore had a 5,280-pound granite monument installed in the Alabama … [Read more...]

A gracEmail subscriber in Tennessee asks, "What are your thoughts -- as a believer, an attorney, and a Texan -- concerning Karla Faye Tucker? I am so thrilled by her witness to God's redemptive power. But I fear for a nation whose leadership is so concerned about doing justice (vengeance?) that it has forgotten what it means to love mercy. Texans shown on TV here appear so cold and vengeful that it's scary. I would love to get your perspective." * * * Most of the civilized world knows that on February 3, 1998, the State of Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker by lethal injection for the … [Read more...]