The Stony Brook Syndrome

Stony Brook University in New York has decided that it will no longer use Jewish and Christian holy days as days off for the university. This primarily impacts Jewish students who will not be allowed off on Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, Passover and Holy Week. Christian students will be affected…
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The Unblessing

Sometime last year, a coalition of Christian groups in Polk County, Florida got together and called themselves Polk Under Prayer (PUP). They decided to bless the Pasco-Polk county line along Highway 98, so they gathered and poured some anointing oil on the highway and prayed for the county. According to…
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Is There Really Change in America?

What are the battles that are being fought now in America’s culture war?
∙    Abortion
∙    Homosexual marriage
∙    Contraceptive mandate
∙    Health insurance mandate
∙    The Integrity of public officials
∙    The nature of freedom
∙    The optimum means for handling the social safety net
∙    The nature of…
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The Media’s Double Standard on Religion

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is an organization with the dubious goal of ridding the public square of all vestiges of religious influence, especially Christianity.  Recently that organization bought a full page advertisement in the New York Times that was clearly anti-Christian and particularly anti-Catholic. The ad was headlined…
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Animal Rights, Abortion and the Apocalypse Revisited

Well, I kind of feel like I have made the big time. It appears that David Brensilver of The Daily Maul has tried to maul me. Basically, it is a blog post blasting me personally for holding a Christian worldview and for explaining some of the differences between a Christian…
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So, Let’s Just Kill the Babies!

If you ever wondered about the ultimate end of a Naturalistic worldview, wonder no more. First, let me say up front that most people who claim to be Naturalists would never advocate what I am about to share. But if it actually bothers them they are being bothered in spite…
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No Big Deal, Right?

In our postmodern culture, the ultimate value is tolerance. And what could possibly be wrong with that? Even the Bible teaches we need to be tolerant of other people, right? Well, perhaps in some ways, but tolerance in modern parlance has a slightly different meaning than the way we normally…
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