This just in from Pat Buchanan

(Editor's Note: posted below are the last few lines of an Op-Ed peace by Patrick Buchanan. While I know many people loath Mr Buchanan and his brand of political thought and political zeal, I tend to think he has the nearly-altogether lost knack of peeling back the layers and seeing things as they really are. For the full text of this essay, click here.)

"For secularism has become the established religion of the American state and judges are the high priests of the new order.

Yet, one wonders if they know what lies at the end of the road upon which they have set the nation.

For five decades, Americans resisted Godless Communism. If they come to realize they did so to save Godless Capitalism, or Godless Socialism, what happens to loyalty and love of country?

To love one's country, said Edmund Burke, one's country ought to be lovely. If this is not God's country anymore, whose country is it?"

An Apostle Testifies.

Sunrise at the Garden Tomb.

I woke with the feelings that today was so ordinary.

Even walking down the long tile hall from my room to the rest of the house, the concerns of the day began to settle on me like a well-worn coat. Would the weather break? Would those we care for that live so far away be safe? And would the sickness they are suffering leave their little bodies? Would the financial concerns of those we love begin to ease? Would happiness begin to spread and replace the gloom that so many now feel?

But through the hum-drum motions of what could be described as one more start to just one more day in a calendar filled with concern, a single message eclipses all others. "He is not here, but is risen."

Moments ago, I read this simple post written by my wife's cousin who is out of town. "Just watched the sunrise at the Garden Tomb," was all the short message reported. But out of that message comes more beauty than a thousand perfect sunsets. More joy than the thousand perfect gifts. And more peace than the combined literature of the ages.

On this Easter Sunday, we invite you to consider the empty tomb and what that means to you, your family and generations who will forever take solace in the words, "He is not here, but is risen."