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The legendary magazine editor died Tuesday night at 95. In his final published words, he reflects on a life well lived. By Norman Podhoretz – The Free Press – 12.17.25 — The Big Read On Wednesday morning, we woke up … Continue reading Norman Podhoretz: The Longest Journey in the World
By History Nerds on Facebook Sofia Behrs was eighteen years old when she married Leo Tolstoy in 1862. He was thirty-four, already a celebrated author. She was the daughter of a court physician, educated, intelligent, full of romantic ideals about … Continue reading Meet the woman responsible for making you slog thru “War and Peace” in High School
From the series The Holy Spirit Chip Ingram launches this series by explaining who the Holy Spirit is and why He matters to the Christian. MESSAGE TRANSCRIPT What did Jesus teach about the Holy Spirit? Who did He say He was? … Continue reading The Holy Spirit: He’s More than “The Force”
John Carney – 22 Nov 2025 – Breitbart The cost of a traditional Thanksgiving meal is down sharply this year, falling to the lowest price since 2021, according to the American Farm Bureau. The farm bureau’s 40th annual survey found … Continue reading Holiday Joy: Thanksgiving Meal Costs Decline To Lowest In Four Years
By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times – Thursday, November 20, 2025 A federal judge just ordered schools in Texas to stop posting copies of the Ten Commandments after hearing from parents of students who had complained the displays … Continue reading Leftists and atheists and their bizarre fear of the Ten Commandments
By Rochel Chein – for Chabad – Question: What was the purpose of each household “keeping” the Paschal lamb for four days, from Nissan 10-14, before it was sacrificed? Answer: Moses instructed the Jewish people about the details of the first Passover offering: “On the tenth … Continue reading What was the purpose of “keeping” the Paschal lamb for four days?
By Helen Andrews – Oct 16, 2025 – Compact magazine My cmnt: This is such an important piece and should be read by anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of why things are (socially, politically, etc.) the way … Continue reading The Great Feminization
Kurt Schlichter | Nov 05, 2025 | Townhall The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com. One more huge miscalculation to heap on all the others regarding the Democrat government shutdown … Continue reading The Trouble With SNAP
Michael Brown | Nov 02, 2025 | Townhall My cmnt: I completely agree with Michael Brown here. The entire chapter of Romans 11 is dedicated to answering this very question. What about the promises to Israel? The Jews, Paul tells … Continue reading The Truth About Christian Zionism
Dmitri Bolt | October 21, 2025 4:35 PM | Townhall While young men across the United States are trending to be more conservative than ever before, young women continue to trend towards being more liberal, with nearly 40 percent of … Continue reading The Two Gen Z Women Blazing New Trail In Conservative Media
The historically black boarding academy in Mississippi is a model worth seeking to emulate. By Jason L. Riley – Oct. 28, 2025 4:55 pm ET – WSJ – (5 min) Getty Images Piney Woods, Miss. It’s no revelation that Dixie has long … Continue reading The Enduring Success of Piney Woods School
Evildoers pass from the scene, but evil will always be with us. By Cynthia Ozick – Oct. 24, 2025 5:02 pm ET – WSJ The ‘Younger Memnon’ statue, which inspired Percy Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias.’ amir makar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Two millennia ago, the Greek … Continue reading Ozymandius and ‘Those Passions Which Yet Survive’
Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths. That’s left more women resigned to being single. ‘The numbers aren’t netting out.’ By Rachel Wolfe – March 21, 2025 8:00 pm ET – Wall Street Journal After a handful of … Continue reading American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage
by Daniel J. Mahoney – Summer 2025 – Claremont Review of Books In his deeply informed new book, Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History, the intellectual historian Thomas Albert Howard challenges a widespread contemporary prejudice that identifies religion with violence and … Continue reading Impious Cruelty
Salmon P. Chase was America’s foremost developer and proponent of both constitutional and political abolitionism. by Randy E. Barnett – Fall 2022 – Claremont Review of Books Most Americans have never heard of Salmon P. Chase. Of those who have, … Continue reading An Indispensable Abolitionist
My cmnt: The following is from overviewbible.com – I post it here because it’s interesting and because another website (To The Reader – below) figures the longest book by chapter count only, which tho’ correct, is not the best way … Continue reading What’s the longest book of the Bible? Not Psalms!
What is woke justice? by Michael Anton – Winter 2021/22 – Claremont Review of Books Editor’s Note: The following manuscript was recently discovered on a palimpsest in the Goucher College library as its collection was being sold off owing to disuse. … Continue reading Beto’s Republic, Book I
Beijing’s latest crackdown on religion includes Ezra Jin Mingri. By The Editorial Board – Oct. 12, 2025 4:13 pm ET – Wall Street Journal Ezra Jin Mingri, head pastor of the Zion church in Beijing, Aug. 28, 2018. thomas peter/Reuters The rulers in … Continue reading China Rounds Up Christian Pastors
Kathryn Lopez | Oct 04, 2025 The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com. If you are a priest in Nigeria, you stand a good chance of being kidnapped or martyred. … Continue reading Hope Amid Chaos in Nigeria
Michael J. Hout | Oct 03, 2025 | Townhall The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com. My cmnt: We don’t need to play footsie here. The Roman Catholic Church is … Continue reading Has Anyone Asked the Archbishop If She Believes in God?
By Rich Lowry – September 22, 2025 6:30 AM – National Review Why is the trans cause advanced with such fever and hate? In the killing of Charlie Kirk, we may well have experienced our first pro-trans assassination. Is anyone … Continue reading The Roots of Trans Fanaticism
Neil Munro – 21 Sep 2025 – Breitbart Vice President JD Vance told the memorial audience for Charlie Kirk that Christianity is essential for good politics. “I have talked more about Jesus Christ in the past two weeks than my … Continue reading JD Vance: ‘I Have Talked More About Jesus Christ in the Past Two Weeks than My Entire Time in Public Life’
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Marjie Ducey – Omaha World-Herald – Sept 21, 2025 – Lincoln Journal Star My cmnt: I include this piece from the OWH via the LJS because my dear (2nd) cousin (tho’ more like a first) married an Indian man and … Continue reading She found her unicorn, but forgot her dress. Still, a perfect wedding day in Omaha.
By William J. Bennett Fox News – Published September 21, 2025 – Fox My cmnt: William Bennett was a conservative icon during the Reagan years. Then his million dollar gambling habit surfaced and he became an embarrassment especially after making … Continue reading WILLIAM BENNETT: What Charlie Kirk’s murder tells us about the American mind
By Kathryn Jean Lopez – September 19, 2025 6:30 AM – National Review A remarkable debate about life itself is playing out in the U.K. Historian Andrew Roberts has declared that it’s monstrous to not legalize assisted suicide in England. J. … Continue reading J. K. Rowling Is Right About Life
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Monday, September 15, 2025 J.K. Rowling arrives at the “Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore” world premiere at The Royal Festival Hall on March 29, 2022, in London, England. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling … Continue reading JK Rowling has a ‘God-shaped vacuum’ inside her, says she could die with ‘matter unresolved’
Livia Ziskey – Sept 18, 2025 – Lincoln Journal Star My cmnt: Click the LJS link above to read entire article and to see more photos of the event. I have edited the excerpt below for clarity and accuracy. A … Continue reading Gov. Pillen, Huskers’ Allick join nearly 1,000 others to honor Charlie Kirk at UNL vigil
And why should he? No one cares about gays especially if they are not militant and in your face about it – OR trying to recruit children like at drag queen story hour put on by your local public school. … Continue reading Hozier is not gay, tho’ he doesn’t care if you think so
My cmnt: Paganism, the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars along with the worship of “mother” earth is as old as Eve. As with Eve her daughters are drawn to the spirit world. I heard it from … Continue reading On a farm near Firth, Nebraska’s very own Stonehenge is ready for visitors
John Nolte – 13 Sep 2025 – Breitbart What the left’s public execution of Charlie Kirk has done to mobilize the MAGA movement is something I never expected to see. For more than 20 years, I’ve been a part of … Continue reading Nolte: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Flipped a Remarkable Switch in the MAGA Movement
The first thing to know is that Laura Ingalls Wilder said and wrote very little about her Christian beliefs. She considered that a private matter and disliked people talking openly about their religious experiences. Because Laura’s daughter Rose edited, sometimes … Continue reading Laura Ingall’s Little House in the Big Woods: Sundays
Where will you be when the Trumpet sounds? by Kyle Smith – Winter 2024/25 – Claremont Review of Books Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction (written by P. F. Sloan) The eastern world it is explodin’Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’You’re old … Continue reading Eve of Destruction
Why one millennial woman is jump-starting the economy, rumbling the earth, and erasing people’s minds—in a good way. By Evan Gardner – 08.12.23 — Culture and Ideas – The Free Press I should probably start by telling you that Taylor … Continue reading Taylor Swift Unites America
Taylor Caldwell, the original very popular Taylor of the 1940s, stated that she and her husband researched 1,000 books and spent over 40 years in the writing of the great Christian, historical novel about Luke, the author of his eponymous … Continue reading Dear and Glorious Physician: A story of Luke
Kate Anderson Contributor – Aug. 21, 2025 – The Daily Caller My cmnt: The Libs of the world and the democrat party cannot understand this. Their skewed view of the world is from being indoctrinated in Sharia Law and and … Continue reading ‘You’re A Monster … You Tried To Kill Me’: Daughter Confronts Parents During Sentencing For ‘Honor Killing’ Attack
The internet is full of LOTR quotes. The Goodreads website has a gillion of them. And certainly everyone has his or hers favorite(s). Here’s just a small sampling of them: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You … Continue reading The most profound quote from The Lord of the Rings
By Rick Phillips – July 17, 2023 – By Faith PCA James Montgomery Boice served as senior pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia from 1968 until his death in June 2000. He was a prolific author who, in addition to … Continue reading James Montgomery Boice: His Legacy Remains Vital to this Day
State-sponsored terror, violence haunts African nation By Paul Tilsley Fox News – Published March 9, 2025 9:13am EDT – Fox My cmnt: As I’ve written here before if the word democratic is in a country’s or party’s name then it … Continue reading Widespread killing, rape, disease and war make Democratic Republic of Congo hell on earth
‘This is a silent slaughter happening, which nobody is discussing,’ expert says By Paul Tilsley Fox News – Published July 31, 2025 6:09am EDT – Fox My cmnt: Islam has been murdering and terrorizing Jews and Christians since it was … Continue reading Islamist terrorists kill 49 Christians in African church massacre; eyewitness reveals horrific details
Advocates and critics of evolution see the Scopes centennial as an opportunity to reset the debate. By Leif Le Mahieu – Jul 31, 2025 DailyWire.com Getty Images My cmnt: Click here to read an accurate and thorough review of the … Continue reading A Century Ago, The ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ Shook The Nation. The Stakes Are Just As High Today.
Darwinism remains the creation myth of the Left and must be defended and advanced Alan Joseph Bauer | Jul 30, 2025 | Townhall All lies, when discovered, destroy trust. One lie is bigger than the rest. Lies are generally not … Continue reading Darwinism: The Biggest Lie of Them All
For the philosopher, unhappiness became not a condition but a vocation. By Adam Kirsch – May 4, 2020 – The New Yorker My cmnt: Timothy Keller, in his book The Reason for God, used Soren Kierkegaard’s definition of sin: Sin is: … Continue reading Søren Kierkegaard’s Struggle with Himself
By Kevin DeYoung – The Gospel Coalition – Apr 24, 2023 Abstract For all the fine retrieval work Stephen Wolfe does in parts of The Case for Christian Nationalism, the overall project must be rejected. I offer a substantive critique … Continue reading The Case for Christian Nationalism: A Review Article
MacArthur was the pastor at Grace Community Church for more than 50 years. By Leif Le Mahieu – Jul 15, 2025 DailyWire.com Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag Christian Pastor John MacArthur, a well-known preacher and speaker who fought against … Continue reading Pastor John MacArthur, Defender Of Religious Liberty During COVID Lockdowns, Dies At 86
JOHN CARNEY – 8 Jul 2025 – Breitbart My cmnt: I have long thought that Superman represented the Jewish idea of who the Messiah should be to its creator Jerry Siegel. Superman comes from another world as a supernatural child … Continue reading Superman and America’s Empty Cradles
John MacArthur – Grace to You – 2 Corinthians 1:12,Romans 6:14–17 – December 26, 1993 A few moments ago in the service, we read the Psalm of the morning, and it was the 38th Psalm. And that 38th Psalm is … Continue reading Hacking Agag to Pieces
by Matt Bogga – June 11, 2018 My cmnt: I am not a fan of Calvin’s Institutes because they are too wordy and the translations of them from French into English are not very readable. Compare the translation below to … Continue reading Summary of the Work of Christ – John Calvin
How far astray is the 4-3 liberal Badger State majority? Justice Sotomayor reversed it for a unanimous High Court. By The Editorial Board – June 9, 2025 at 5:42 pm ET – WSJ A view of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Madison. PHOTO: VINCENT … Continue reading U.S. Supreme Court 9, Wisconsin Supreme Court 0
The following video lays out five very salient points explaining what true science is and then contrasting that with neoDarwinian biological evolutionary theory Continue reading Darwin’s theory not science – 5 minutes with Dr. David Berlinski
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Lord Buckbeak: "Will you come into my parlor?," said the Spider to the Fly. 