Archive for December 2020
SUNDAY SONGS: Rise Up (Lazarus!)
Now It’s Covid Cancel Christians Culture (CCCC) As New Orleans Mayor Nixes Lauren Daigle
An award-winning Christian and cross-over recording artist performed without a mask at a worship protest earlier this year in the French Quarter, so New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell wants to ban Lauren Daigle from the Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve show. Daigle, who is from Lafayette, Louisiana, performed mask-less during Sean Feucht’s “Let Us…
Read MoreWHAT DO YOU THINK: Are There Contradictions In The Gospels?
Reading the accounts in the four Gospels of the Easter Sunday discovery that the tomb of Jesus was empty prompts questions about the reliability of the New Testament, thanks to what appear to be variations or even outright contradictions in the details. Matthew says, for example, that “after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first…
Read MoreFIRST AMENDMENT: Court Strikes Down Nevada’s Covid Church Attendance Limits
More fruit harvested today from the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn as the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom wins in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From the decision today against Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s clearly discriminatory anti-Covid regulations that penalized churches with severe attendance limits while leaving casinos essentially free…
Read MoreWeekly Church Goers Only Group With Improved Mental Health In Latest Gallup Survey
Regular church attenders were the sole major group surveyed in the 2020 Gallup Poll Americans’ Assessment of Their Mental Health to show a positive increase, compared to 2019. The increase was only four percent, from 42 percent of respondents claiming to attend weekly church services who rated their mental health condition as excellent in 2019,…
Read MoreJustice Samuel Alito’s Christmas Present For America
When U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito spoke to the National Lawyers Convention of the Federalist Society in early November, no one would have predicted that his address would be a Christmas gift to America. Alito’s basic message was a warning that the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty — our “First Freedom” —is…
Read MoreSUNDAY SONGS: Who You Are To Me
California Court Delivers Stinging Rebuke To Newsom’s Anti-Church Covid-19 Regulations
California Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp delivered a stinging rebuke of Gov. Gavin Newsom late Thursday, ruling against “all Covid-19 restrictions that fail to treat houses of worship equal to the favored class of entities [i.e., ‘essential businesses’”]. The ruling came in the case of Father Trevor Burfitt v Gavin Newsom, a suit brought by…
Read MoreMYTH BUSTERS: Did An Imposter Fake The Resurrection?
It’s one of a half-dozen or so theories critics of the resurrection of Jesus Christ have propounded over the years in their effort to explain away the central claim of Christianity, that Jesus was crucified dead, buried and on the third day rose again and appeared to hundreds of people before returning to Heaven. How…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. The one who does not love me will not keep my word. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who…
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