What Do Latter-day Saints and Muslims Have in Common? – Part 2 – Tal Davis

In Part One of this four part series we related that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons) recently released a pamphlet comparing and contrasting seventeen points of its faith with that of the Muslims. (Read the LDS pamphlet titled Muslims and Latter-day Saints: Beliefs, Values,
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What Do Latter-day Saints and Muslims Have in Common? – Part 1 – Tal Davis

Two religious groups which have garnered a great deal of attention in the United States over the last couple of decades are the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (AKA: LDS or Mormons) and the world religion of Islam (whose followers are called Muslims). Both of those religious movements…
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Wrong Beliefs Lead to Wrong Outcomes

Recently, Ross Douthat wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times. Douthat is Roman Catholic, and is a Times opinion columnist who writes particularly about politics, religion, moral values, and higher education. Now being a New York Times opinion writer, it is not difficult to guess where his political…
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The Rise of Secular Religion

Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, Virginia, is a delegate in Virginia’s House of Delegates (their version of the House of Representatives). Scott recently accused Virginia’s governor, Governor Youngkin, of not being a Christian. He made this pronouncement based on his assertion that the governor has banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) from being…
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What Is the Difference Between Building Programs and Building Disciples?

I love church. I love gathering together and sharing fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ. And I especially love gathering together with my fellow believers and worshiping God together with them. And as one who has been a pastor myself, I appreciate, more than most, the effort pastors…
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Will the James Webb Space Telescope Disprove God? – Tal Davis

On Christmas Day, December 25th, 2021, NASA, in cooperation with the European Space Agency, the French National Centre for Space Studies, and the Canadian Space Agency, launched the new James Webb Space Telescope from the French owned Guiana Space Centre in South America. The infra-red telescope will orbit the sun…
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Origin of the Gender Wars

Exeter High School, in New Hampshire, has a written policy on “transgender and gender nonconforming students” that says they have the right to be addressed by their preferred name and pronoun – regardless of their biological sex. Last fall, a student in a Spanish class at the school announced to…
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