January 20, 2019
“This is what God, Yahweh, says — who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk on it –” Isaiah 42:5 (HCSB) One of my favorite books by astronomer/apologist Dr. Hugh Ross […]
Tags: A Matter of Days, Arthur Eddington, Big Bang cosmology, fine-tuning, Fred Hoyle, George Gamow, Georges Lemaitre, Hugh Ross, ICR, origins of big bang theory, space energy density, theistic implications, transcendent Cause, universe with a beginning, YEC misunderstanding
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
January 13, 2019
“We’re either going to have a win, make a compromise — because I think a compromise is a win for everybody — or I will declare a national emergency.” — President Donald Trump Once again, the U.S. government is in a partial shutdown due to a stalemate on budgetary issues. The President demands the $5.7 […]
Tags: 'immoral' wall, Ben Shapiro, border security government shutdown, budgetary stalemate, build the wall, Chuck Schumer, compromise, Congressional funding, constitutionality, crisis at the border, defense funding, Donald Trump, executive order, immigration policy, Judge Anthony Napolitano, Lindsey Graham, Mark Levin, Mexican border, Nancy Pelosi, national emergency, negotiation, Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, separation of powers, southern border
Posted in Politics |
January 6, 2019
“I can’t figure out why Romney thought ribbing the president was strategically more useful than offering ideas to solve the problem at the border and get the government fully-funded.” — Newt Gingrich As you may have heard, former Massachusetts Governor and then-incoming Utah Senator Mitt Romney had a controversial op-ed published in The Washington Post […]
Tags: anti-Trump, attacking the President, backstabbing, Ben Shapiro, Breitbart, controversial op-ed, freshman Senator, GOP infighting, mantle of the office, Mitt Romney, National Review, Newt Gingrich, presidential aspirations, primary challenge, Rand Paul, Ronna McDaniel, The Washington Post, two-faced
Posted in Politics |
December 30, 2018
Following the “A View from the Right” year-end tradition, this year’s final post is a sampling of my favorite posts ranging from 2010 thru 2018. Hopefully, readers new and old will find something of interest from the archives that they may have missed. There is no actual ranking involved, but I have tried to present […]
Tags: blogging, favorite posts, recommended, sample posts, suggested reading, Top 10
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
December 23, 2018
“28 Simeon took Him [i.e., the baby Jesus] up in his arms, praised God, and said: 29 Now, Master, You can dismiss Your slave in peace, as You promised. 30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation. 31 You have prepared it in the presence of all peoples — 32 a light for revelation to […]
Tags: attack on Christianity, Christmas, Christos, keeping Christ in Christmas, NT Greek abbreviation, R.C. Sproul, secularism, Xmas
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
December 16, 2018
“We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.” — Ronald Reagan Anytime I hear or read someone promoting isolationist policy — and usually citing George Washington in support of it — I have to shake my head. Washington actually made a lot of […]
Tags: Brett Schaefer, China, countering Communist moves, economic partnerships, financial independence, foreign investment, George Washington Farewell Address, Islamists, isolationism, John Bolton, Joshua Meservey, long-term strategy, national security, Prosper Africa, Ronald Reagan quote, Russia, The Heritage Foundation, Trump administration, U.S. foreign policy
Posted in Politics |
December 9, 2018
“No matter how difficult this has been, if I don’t represent the Christian perspective — the minority perspective — there won’t be anyone to represent these views.” — Isabella Chow to Fox News On Oct. 31 of this year, at the request of the Queer Alliance Resource Center (QARC), a measure was voted upon by […]
Tags: abstaining from vote, ASUC, bold stand for what is right, Christian in student government, Christian principles, Daily Californian, harrassment, Isabella Chow, legal definition of sex, LGBTQ+, model of love while disagreeing, QARC, Queer Alliance Resource Center, San Francisco Chronicle, student senator defiant, the intolerant Left, Title IX, trans-exclusive, UC Berkeley
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
December 2, 2018
“It makes sense that witchcraft and the occult would rise as society becomes increasingly postmodern. The rejection of Christianity has left a void that people, as inherently spiritual beings, will seek to fill.” — author Julie Roys, formerly of Moody Radio A recent article in The Christian Post discusses the dramatic rise in self-identifying witches […]
Tags: biblical condemnation, Christian apologetics, Demon Possession, doctrinal decay of Protestantism, Donald Nugent, Francis Schaeffer, Julie Roys, need for spiritual revival, occultic revival, Os Guinness, overbelief in demonic influence, paganism, pervasive anti-rationalism, postmillennial optimism, postmodernism, repackaged witchcraft for millennial consumption, Richard Lovelace, Satanism, societal taboos, superstition, the medieval church, the Renaissance, theocratic restraints, Theodore Roszak, Western Christendom, Wicca, witchcraft
Posted in Religion |
November 25, 2018
“Less obvious reasons for why God created dinosaurs and elephants is to increase the global availability of nutrients and to permit a greater diversity of life to survive.” — Dr. Hugh Ross A few of you might remember that I blogged a few years ago about being thankful for sperm whales and other large predators […]
Tags: bio-diversity, Christopher Doughty, Cretaceous Period, defecation, digestion, dinosaurs, elephants, Hugh Ross, large herbivores, observational field studies, Paleontology, Paul Rees, plant material nutrients, sauropods, theoretical biological models
Posted in Science |
November 18, 2018
“We need to stop the caravan. We need to build the wall.” — Newt Gingrich For weeks we have been reading and hearing about the “caravan” of over 7000 Central Americans trekking their way through Mexico to the United States, with the stated goal of either pleading for amnesty or simply demanding that the U.S. […]
Tags: border security, border wall, build the wall, caravan, fentanyl, illegal drug trade, illegal immigrants, MS-13, Newt Gingrich, opioid crisis, refugees, supply chain, the perfect storm, violent gang
Posted in Politics |