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  • Conversion by the WordWhat should our reaction be when others pray for our conversion?

    By Selwyn Duke There recently was a story about a German Jewish leader, Charlotte Knobloch, who criticized Pope Benedict XVI for allowing a traditional Easter prayer that calls for the conversion of the Jewish people. Her reaction raises an interesting issue, as praying for conversion isn’t unique to Catholics any more than taking offense to…

  • Exposing the Galileo Myth

    By Selwyn Duke I responded today to an American Thinker piece by fellow AT contributor James Lewis titled "The Epicycles of Global Warming."  While Lewis’ article was very well done, it included a recapitulation of the Galileo myth, and I was moved to address it.  Here is my response:

  • Florida Wants to Suppress Facts That Contradict Evolution

    World Net Daily has a piece today about how the state of Florida aims to institute a science teaching standard that would teach evolution as fact and ignore facts that might contradict it.  Writes WND:

  • Reconsidering the Inquisition

    A columnist named Vox Day wrote an excellent piece in which he puts the Spanish Inquisition in perspective.   Day, and intelligent man who has obviously done his homework (I can’t say much for his haircut, though), starts out:

  • An Anti-Christian Children’s Book

    By Selwyn Duke The secular fundamentalists are on the march, and one of their latest efforts is a German children’s book that impugns religion.  It’s a blunt, vile screed titled How Do I Get to God, Asked the Small Piglet, which seems like it was written by a low-rent Christopher Hitchens.   In a DW-World.DE piece…

  • New Ageism Causes Depression

    By Selwyn Duke World Net Daily is currently running an article about how people who embrace non-traditional spiritual beliefs exhibit more psychological problems and anti-social behavior than traditional believers. 

  • New Year’s Resolutions

    By Selwyn Duke I was never one for New Year’s Resolutions.  Quite frankly, they always struck me as silly.  If a change is warranted, why wait for a certain date to make it?

  • Faith on Your Lips

    By Selwyn Duke People of true faith increasingly become aware of the effort to strike Christmas and Christianity from our cultural landscape.  And some of us fight quite feverishly to preserve our traditions, we really do.  We may find out that certain stores prohibit their employees from saying "Merry Christmas" and then boycott those establishments. …

  • Thought of the Day – The Wisdom of Edmund Burke

    The following are select quotations from the great Irish orator and statesman, Edmund Burke (1729-1797). On Freedom . . . Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,—in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,—in proportion as their soundness and…

  • The Media’s Inescapable Bias

    By Selwyn Duke I happened to tune in to a documentary last night titled "God’s Christian Warriors."  It’s one segment of a three-part series on religion that is the handiwork of veteran reporter Christiane Amanpour.  It caught my eye while watching the program guide, as I expected the usual anti-Christian double standards.  I was not…