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Four Ways To Think About The ‘God Doesn’t Exist Because He’s Hidden’ Argument
If God exists, how come we never “see” Him? That’s a claim usually heard from self-avowed atheists, but it can also be the plaintive cry from the heart of the most convinced believer. “God, where are you?” is a question I have asked, too. Philosopher Kenneth R. Samples of Reasons to Believe takes up this…
No, ‘Ardi’ Isn’t The Missing Link, Either
World Magazine’s John Dawson reports on the research of a Texas A&M University paleontologist who, upon examining the bones of the most recent candidate for evolutionary theorists’ desperately sought missing link, concluded that it doesn’t fit: “Scientists are rethinking a famous fossil often used to illustrate the Darwinian story that humans descended from apes. According to…
Jesus’ Resurrection Through The Eyes Of A Roman Soldier
History seen through the eyes of its players has always fascinated me because there is a genuine sense in which we all see and participate in the events of the day in our own unique manner. “How would I have reacted had I been there?” So imagine that you are Clavius, Pilate’s most trusted Legion…
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…
WHAT 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…
FIRST 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…
Weekly 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,…
Justice 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…