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Category Archives: Culture
Time to Support the Christian Service Brigade
I can heartily endorse the Christian Service Brigade, a program that trains young men to be leaders and shows them what it is like to be a disciplined man. You can find out more about the program here: http://www.csbministries.org/ I … Continue reading
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News Flash: Supreme Court Decides Marriage is One Man, One Woman
United States Supreme Court (1885), in the case of Murphy v. Ramsey & Others, 144 U.S. 15, 45 (1885), gave its opinion: Every person who has a husband or wife living … and marries another … is guilty of polygamy, … Continue reading
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Ravi Z. on Richard Dawkins’ Mockery
Wise words from Ravi Zacharias.
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Atheist Professor Becomes Christian
Dr. Holly Ordway has published a book titled Not God’s Type, telling her personal story. She begins “I had never in my life said a prayer, never been to a church service. Christmas meant presents and Easter meant chocolate bunnies–nothing … Continue reading
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University of Michigan Promotes Religious Discrimination in the Name of Tolerance
It appears that the University of Michigan has forced a Christian group off campus because the group insists its officers be Christian. You can read about it here. Thus the University of Michigan joins a list of other universities that … Continue reading
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Roe v. Wade, Considered
The anniversary of legalized voluntary child killing brings a rather profound irony. Our culture knows many times more about the development of a human than it did in 1973, so we can no longer say an unborn child is a … Continue reading
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You Should Listen to Ravi Z.
Ravi Zacharias has a radio program called “Let My People Think” which airs on many stations. You can listen to the programs online at this link: http://www.rzim.org/let-my-people-think-broadcasts/ The most recent three programs have been very insightful and interesting. If you … Continue reading
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Scientists Say….But Do You Trust Them?
Modern culture views truth as having a gold standard, science. It measures all statements against scientific facts, accepting the ones that align with science and rejecting the ones that do not. Somewhere down the list are religious truths, which are … Continue reading
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One Difference Between Islam and Christianity
As I write this, there has been almost a week of violent protests across the Muslim world. The ambassador to Libya has been killed, the US embassy in Cairo was invaded, the US flag removed and destroyed, replaced by a … Continue reading
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Sex News
A few interesting articles about sex-related issues. First, a frank discussion from a child of two lesbian moms, talking about what it was like. It’s almost refreshing to hear a description without all the spin. You can find it here. Next, … Continue reading
Christian Roots of the US: Thomas Jefferson’s Writings
On July 4th, 1776, the words of the Declaration of Independence, which Thomas Jefferson penned, stated: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, … Continue reading
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Christian Roots of the United States
In recognition of the fourth of July celebration this week, we publish a series of quotes from the history of the United States. While the US never stated Christianity as an official religion, the founders were most definitely steeped in … Continue reading
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Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, and Religious Liberty
The latest in the current case of denying religious liberty in the US. As you may recall, Vanderbilt University leaders made a move restricting the leadership rules for religious student groups, a move which showed they had put political correctness … Continue reading
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Down’s Syndrome and Voluntary Child Killing
In the late ’90′s, a co-worker of mine, Lisa, became pregnant and told me one day that she was having tests done to determine if there were any abnormalities with the baby. If there were, she would abort it. What … Continue reading
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“Aborting” Already-Born Babies
More than 30 years ago, Francis Schaeffer told us that if we allow people to voluntarily kill their unborn children, then the next that would be killed were the most vulnerable in society, the elderly and the newborn. We’ve already … Continue reading
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Burning Qurans or Burning People? (again)
As I write this, there has recently been a controversy that arose over some US soldiers who burned a Quran. Prisoners were writing in it, apparently plotting together, and when it was confiscated, it was destroyed. The populace rioted, and … Continue reading
What Does The Bible Say About Women? (part 2)
Yesterday’s post listed many Bible passages that demonstrate the high view of women that is held by the scriptures. As expected, the comments seemed to ignore these many passages, and go straight to the few that are not popular in … Continue reading
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What Does The Bible Say About Women?
What is the Biblical picture of women? People in our day forget how much of human history has discriminated against women. Within the last hundred years in the United States, there was a time where banks would not give women … Continue reading
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Two Abortionists Charged with Murder
WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death … Continue reading
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Sandusky: Homosexual Molestation, Once Again
This week in the news there is yet another large scandal involving adult males molesting young boys. It seems this happens all too frequently: ten years ago it was priests, then every so often there is another case in the … Continue reading
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Why Do Atheists Talk So Much About Religion?
Why is it that atheists talk so much about religion? It strikes me that they are always going on and on about religion, sometimes more than the Christians. It further strikes me that many of the atheists I encounter are … Continue reading
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Morality: Universal & Objective, or Cultural & Relative?
In Dinesh D’Souza’s book What’s So Great About Christianity? he pokes a few large holes in the common arguments that people level against the Christian faith, and specifically shows how the Christian view of morality holds up, while the secular … Continue reading
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The End of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Today marked the end of the military policy known as ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ There are a lot of news stories today that are using words like fairness and equal rights. In recognition of the end of this policy, I … Continue reading
No Jailtime For Woman Who Strangled Infant, Due To Abortion
It’s finally happened……..a woman strangled to death a newborn and will get no jail time. You can read about it here. Apparently because she did not want the child, she strangled the newborn to death and threw the body away. … Continue reading
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Love Your Neighbor, the Atheist
A great blog post over on Sean McDowell’s blog. You can find it here. We are commanded in scripture to always be ready to give every man an answer (1 Peter 3:15) and to “earnestly contend for the faith” (Jude … Continue reading
Muslim Terrrorists? Christian Terrorists?
In recent weeks a man in Norway systematically murdered several dozen people. Some news reports described him as a “Christian terrorist” apparently due to some of his writings that supported historical European cultural heritage. While I have not seen all … Continue reading
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Prediction
It’s always difficult and somewhat dangerous to try to predict future trends. But this has stopped few people, so here goes my attempt. We have a trend in atheism that started with erudite academics like Hume, then continued through men … Continue reading
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What Good Does It Do To Study Philosophy?
Many today consider studying philosophy to be a useless exercise akin to the punishment Paul Newman received in the movie Cool Hand Luke: dig a hole, fill it in, repeat. Many inside and outside the church consider the study of … Continue reading
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Why Has Our Culture Changed So Dramatically?
In 1957, the Everly Brothers recorded a song called Wake Up Little Suzie, a song about a boy and a girl on a date that fell asleep and didn’t wake up till early in the morning. The song suggested that … Continue reading
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