A Social Network Christmas
by Joe CarterHere’s another video similar to the one I posted earlier today : Via: Mary Ellen Kelly . . . . Continue Reading »
Qur’an Written Using Saddam Hussein’s Blood
by Joe CarterAdd this to list of “Weird things you didn’t know existed”: It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety. Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former . . . . Continue Reading »
The Wisdom of Father James Schall
by Peter LawlerKen Masugi once again shares with us this Advent. A taste: What America has learned at its best is how to create a city for mortal men while recognizing their passing thorough this world. It does not offer a this-worldly heaven but simply a way to rule themselves, provide for families, a sense of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Symbiosis of Science and Metaphysics
by Joe CarterIn Faith magazine, physicist Stephen Barr discusses whether modern physics had anything to teach metaphysics and theology : Might the discoveries of modern science have implications for theology? They certainly cannot alter the substance of “the faith once delivered to the saints”. They . . . . Continue Reading »
The Mega-Selling Christian and Conservative Novelist
by Hunter BakerThis has nothing to do with the Left Behind books by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye.Nor am I referring to writers behind recent surprise hits like Facing the Giantsor Fireproof.In fact, the individual I mean to talk about isn’t considered part of the Christian subculture at all.He . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Kinsley Doesn’t Know What He is Talking About on the Bush Stem Cell Policy
by Wesley J. SmithThe NYT Book Review gave the liberal columnist, Michael Kinsley, the job of reviewing President Bush’s book Decision Points. What a shock! He didn’t like it. (Having Kinsley review Bush would be like having PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk review my book A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a . . . . Continue Reading »
Singing the Psalms: The Psalm Project
by David T. KoyzisI have recently been made aware of The Psalm Project, a group of young Christian musicians in the Netherlands who are rendering the Genevan Psalms in contemporary form. Here is a medley of their efforts below, which are quite compelling:Here are Psalms 86, 119 (partial, obviously) and 139:Quite . . . . Continue Reading »
Global Warming Hysteria: 2000—English Children Will Not Know Snow—2010: Oops, Nevermind!
by Wesley J. SmithThanks to the Drudge Report for this: In 2000, a warming scientist from East Anglia, Dr. David Viner, went way out on a limb and said there would soon be no more snow in England. From the Independent report of March 20, 2000:Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Only Natural
by Tom GilsonDid you know there were two tin woodmen in Oz? Probably not—the second one tells his tale for the first time in this story.Only Natural“The first tin woodman thought it was a curse. I saw it differently. You probably remember his story—how he fell in love with a certain girl, who . . . . Continue Reading »
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