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Christian Persecution in 2014 was Worst in Modern Era

January 8, 2015 | Tal Davis

“While the year 2014 will go down in history for having the highest level of global persecution of Christians in the modern era, current conditions suggest the worst is yet to come.” So begins the 2015 Open Doors World Watch List, released on January 7. The annual report is made…

The Passing of Gretchen Passantino Coburn

October 6, 2014 | Tal Davis

I doubt many of you have ever heard of Bob and Gretchen Passantino, but they were two of the most outstanding apologists and cult researchers in the field for more than three decades. Bob died in 2003 and I just learned that Gretchen, who had remarried a few years ago,…

Take Your Youth Group to See “The Giver!”

August 18, 2014 | Tal Davis

What would it be like to live in a world where people were assigned their careers by an all-powerful state? Who would want to live in a place where emotions, sensations, and pain were neutralized by a daily dose of a drug? Would you want a world without war…

The Fabric of Our Faith

June 12, 2014 | Tal Davis

A number of years ago I worked in the men’s clothing section of a large department store. I was not there long but I did learn a few things about the garment business. One key thing I learned was about the quality of various fabrics. Fabrics are the basic textile…

LDS Now Has 85,000 Missionaries!

April 7, 2014 | Tal Davis

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/ Mormons) now has more than 85,000 missionaries working in 405 “Missions” around the world. That startling number was announced at the church’s semiannual World Conference earlier this week in Salt Lake City. LDS missionaries are primarily young men who take two…

Joni’s Hollywood “Not-Friends”

February 3, 2014 | Tal Davis

Joni Eareckson-Tada is one of the world’s most admired Christian women. Most of us know her story of how at age seventeen she dived into shallow water and hit a rock that severed her spine. For more than forty-six years now she has demonstrated how God’s grace allowed her …

Polygamy: The LDS Legacy That Won’t Go Away

December 17, 2013 | Tal Davis

In 1890, Wilford Woodruff, the then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), issued a “Declaration” that, in effect ,suspended the Mormon doctrine of plural marriage (polygamy). Actually, polygamy was a notorious doctrine and practice of the LDS since the time of Joseph Smith. The practice…

A Day We Shouldn’t Forget (But not just for the reason you think)

November 20, 2013 | Tal Davis

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was late Friday afternoon in Mrs. Farrell’s sixth-grade class at the old Sealey Elementary School on 7^th Avenue in Tallahassee. A guy named Joe and I were having fun slicing construction paper with a paper-cutter and looking forward to the weekend …

Far Eastern Thought and Sacred Ground In Lilburn, Ga.

August 2, 2013 | Tal Davis

Sacred and holy ground is found in Georgia? It is according the local Atlanta, Ga., channel 11 Alive news team. This morning (Friday, August, 2), 11 Alive broadcast its early morning wakeup show from the town square of the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, a community of about 12,000 residents. Though…

The Year in Review –Good or Bad, Neutral or Sad

January 1, 2013 | Tal Davis

Here is my list of the most important events of 2012 in America from a worldview perspective. These are the ones that, in my humble opinion, had the greatest impact on the moral, philosophical, and spiritual lives of our nation and its future direction (for good, bad, or neutral).

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