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Meanwhile, Elsewhere in the Conservative Blogosphere…

September 8, 2019

What do Benny Hinn, the Big Bang, and Joe Biden’s gun-grab have in common? Nothing, as far as I can tell, other than the prominence of the letter “B” and the fact that all three show up in this blogpost. Stick with me… Despite having gotten a good-sized post published on time last Sunday, the […]

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Christ’s Temptations: Did Matthew or Luke Get the Order Wrong?

September 1, 2019

Having parallel accounts within the Bible for some events and incidents is great for biblical study purposes and for apologetics. The Synoptic Gospels (i.e., Matthew, Mark, Luke) are notable for this. But, they can also be a double-edged sword, so to speak, when certain details seem to be inconsistent between accounts. A few weeks ago, […]

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Nature’s Calendars, Part 2: Tree Rings, Coral Reefs, and Varves

August 25, 2019

“It is awe inspiring to us that God created his natural world in a way that allows us to explore the unobserved past with such remarkable clarity.”  — Gregg Davidson and Ken Wolgemuth This week’s post includes another excerpt from Dr. Hugh Ross’s book A Matter of Days, 2nd ed. (2015), along with a related […]

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What About Greenland?

August 18, 2019

“We’re open for business, not for sale.”  — Greenland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Q: What is roughly 836,000+ sq mi, has fewer than 56,000 citizens, is acknowledged to be the world’s largest island, and has sparked an unusual amount of attention lately? A: Greenland, of course. As you may have heard, President Trump recently began […]

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Big Tech’s Manipulation of Election Votes

August 11, 2019

“We have reason to believe that Google is knowingly, deliberately, strategically manipulating people’s thinking and behavior from the very first character people type into the search box.” — Dr. Robert Epstein This past July, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee — specifically, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution — held a Congressional hearing about unethical […]

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Kissing Joshua Harris Goodbye (or Not)

August 4, 2019

In case you hadn’t heard, Joshua Harris (no relation), one of the leading lights of “purity culture”, is no longer promoting the practices he wrote about in the popular I Kissed Dating Goodbye (1997/2003). But, this is only part of the serious and surprising changes going on with Harris. Harris would follow up that first […]

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Dining with Minahasans and Jews

July 28, 2019

“MINAHASA: an Indonesian people inhabiting the Minahasa Peninsula of northeast Sulawesi” — Merriam-Webster Do you ever get really grossed out when you see or hear what certain other cultures eat? Certainly, missionaries and other visitors from one part of the world to another will encounter some “delicacies” that seem awfully strange, even disgusting. Why is […]

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Nature’s Calendars, Part 1: Ice Cores and Sediments

July 21, 2019

I didn’t post one in June, but this week I’d like to continue my series of excerpts from Hugh Ross’s book A Matter of Days, 2nd ed., about scientific measurements for distance and, especially, time (e.g., the age of the Earth and certain things on it). Whereas in May we looked at radiometric dating, this […]

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Forgiving Liam Neeson

July 14, 2019

“Forty years ago, Liam Neeson roamed in Black neighbourhoods across Northern Ireland looking for an innocent Black man to attack—a Black man like me….”  — Samuel Sey I have recently become aware of the writings of Samuel Sey at the Slow To Write blog. Sey is a Ghanaian-born Canadian who writes with brutal honesty — […]

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Trump, Tanks, and Patriotism

July 7, 2019

“It seems anything this president does or tries to do, Democrats object and go after him for — and that’s just wrong. It’s gotten so tiresome.”  — a New York-based attendee, father of four and a military veteran No sooner had Trump announced the “A Salute to America” event in Washington, D.C. and that he […]

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