Faith and the Patriot Articles Archives

California Church Pays $20,000 a Month for Security

by Professor Paul Markel | August 3rd, 2022 | 0 comments

The Rev. Steven Marsh never thought he would see the day his church in Laguna Woods, California — a town of 16,500 populated largely by retirees — would be spending $20,000 a month for security. At Geneva Presbyterian, armed security guards now stand watch every...

Church Security: More than Guns

by Professor Paul Markel | November 30th, 2017 | 1 comment

“If men with machine guns burst through those doors right now and said that they were going to kill every Christian here, would you stay or would you leave?” The speaker was the pastor of our church, my family was in attendance at a weekly Sunday service, and I was...

Liberty is Light

by Professor Paul Markel | April 19th, 2016 | 1 comment

[memb_include_partial id=15899] Basic Science Even those who went to public school during the last twenty years should understand that light, both visible and invisible, is a product of positive energy. Human beings learned how to make light when they unlocked the...