Joni’s Hollywood “Not-Friends”

  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
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Polygamy: The LDS Legacy That Won’t Go Away

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

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 7th 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
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A P.C. Pope?

Last week the world’s news media had a field day with a recent interview Pope Francis gave to La Civilta Cattolica (The Catholic Civilization) a Rome based Journal for Jesuit priests. In the interview the Pope seemed to be wavering on some ethical concerns that the Roman Catholic Church has…
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Far Eastern Thought and Sacred Ground In Lilburn, Ga.

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…
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Time to Call Evil EVIL!

The recent events in Boston have again raised the level of consciousness in America about the continuing (and growing) threat of radical Jihadist Islam. It amazes me, however, how the present administration and many in the mainstream media are so reluctant to call it Islamic terrorism. Too many liberal pundits…
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Meet the New Pope- Same as the Old Pope

Unless you have been hiding in a cave in Antarctica for the past week, you already know that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected on Wednesday, March 13th as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.  The new Pontiff has taken the name of Pope Francis…
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The Year in Review –Good or Bad, Neutral or Sad

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).
  • Jan.
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