A Salt and Light Resolution

   This year, perhaps as never before, America’s Christian citizens need to make some important New Year’s resolutions.  We need to resolve that we will consciously be the salt and light the Lord told us we are -- that we won’t obscure our light or seek to remove the “saltiness” from our lives.
   The out-workings of this type of resolution are numerous.  Perhaps for some of us, resolving to be salt and light will mean we will become more outspoken and more involved with pro-life issues. If we allow the approximately 500 babies a month who die from abortion in Wisconsin to have real faces and real tiny feet and hands, as so many of us have clearly seen through the Center for Medical Progress videos, perhaps we will be more motivated to volunteer in a crisis pregnancy center or to at least support such centers financially.  Maybe we’d be willing to attend pro-life rallies at the state capitol, to speak up at every opportunity on behalf of the unborn, to encourage our churches to recognize Sanctity of Human Life month in January
   Resolving to really be salt and light might mean that we refuse to sit on the sidelines when the issue of gender-identity, under the guise of tolerance and safety, comes to our school district,  as it has to so many Wisconsin school districts this year.  It may result in our calling school board members, attending school board meetings and even sp ...