Jon Gabriel

3 days ago | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

Once upon a time, people venerated their ancestors as wise creators, mighty heroes and fonts of wisdom. That veneration slipped with the onset of the scientific revolution and has diminished ever since. Here in our technologically advanced 21st century, the average Joe considers himself superior to all who came before. After all, we moved past the dark ages of superstition and folk tales, and now we use pure reason backed by scientific fact.

3 weeks ago | theepochtimes.com | Jon Gabriel

CommentaryFifty years ago, on April 30, Americans were glued to their television sets. Flickering screens showed frightened civilians pushing their way up a rickety rooftop stairway, desperately trying to climb aboard one of the last departing helicopters. On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell to the communist armies of North Vietnam, just two years after the Paris Peace Accords and the departure of American forces. The event still polarizes the American public.

1 month ago | readersfavorite.com | Jon Gabriel

Reviewed by P. Rosenthal for Readers' Favorite Sink the Rising Sun by Jon C. Gabriel follows the journey of a twenty-five-year-old inexperienced naval officer named Benjamin Holt. During the chaos and destruction of World War II, he is given command of an aging submarine, newer crewmen, and outdated equipment. Their mission is to disrupt and destroy the supply lines of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

1 month ago | fee.org | Jon Gabriel

The disaster of the Vietnam War cast a long shadow. Fifty years ago today, Americans were glued to their television sets. Flickering screens showed frightened civilians pushing their way up a rickety rooftop stairway, desperately trying to climb aboard one of the last departing helicopters. On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell to the communist armies of North Vietnam, just two years after the Paris Peace Accords and the departure of American forces. The event still polarizes the American public.

1 month ago | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “[M]an everywhere appears as a worshiping creature.” This applies not only to the faithful, but to the unbeliever as well. A person who rejects the divine merely redirects his worship to something else: money, politics, ideology, romantic love, knowledge. The list goes on. In a peaceful, prosperous nation, it’s easy to live that way. But what happens when the West’s centuries-long experiment with secularism proves each of these replacement faiths to be tin gods?