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The Reasons Behind Shakespeare’s Influence and Popularity Ben Jonson anticipated Shakespeare’s dazzling future when he declared, “He was not of an age, but for all time!” in the preface to the First Folio. While most people know that Shakespeare is, in … Continue reading Why Study Shakespeare?
Jerry Newcombe | Aug 25, 2024 – Townhall.com My cmnt: The King James English of 1611 is practically a foreign language by now. Even the 1769 edition is nearly impossible to read without a modern translation side-by-side. My wife uses the … Continue reading Celebrating the King James Bible
Construction dates decorate the outside of Tifereth Israel synagogue. The year the building was constructed is 1954 — 5714 by the Jewish calendar. The synagogue is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.MATT RYERSON/Lincoln Journal Star Erin Andersen – Jul 28, … Continue reading ‘Little Shul on the Prairie’ at 100 — Lincoln’s conservative Jewish synagogue marks centennial
By Dennis Prager | Aug 13, 2024 – Townhall.com This past weekend, two biologically male boxers won gold medals in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. On Friday, Imane Khelif of Algeria won the gold medal in the women’s welterweight division. … Continue reading The Woke 2024 Olympics: Where Men Were Allowed to Punch Women
REV. JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J. – NOVEMBER 23, 2015 “Those who want to eradicate poverty make the Son of God a liar. They are mistaken and lying.” ∼ Robert Cardinal Sarah “The economic problem … has been solved already: we know how … Continue reading Will the Poor Really Always Be With Us?
Peter Coles weighs up three books on the momentous expedition that proved the general theory of relativity. By Peter Coles – April 15, 2019 – for Nature In 1916, Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity in full mathematical … Continue reading Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 eclipse
L.A. TIMES ARCHIVES – MARCH 11, 1995 12 AM PT – FROM TIMES WIRE SERVICES My cmnt: Tho’ this award given to Davies occurred 29+ years ago he has only increased in his conviction that a super intelligence, of unfathomable mind … Continue reading Templeton Prize Goes to Physicist Paul Davies : Recognition: His work bridges the realms of science and religion. Winner of $1-million award believes the universe is not a random occurrence, but a marvel of sublime order.
Planned Parenthood cashing in on gender transitions The 1916 Project details the work of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and the impact her work has had on modern-day American culture. This photo shows the first birth control clinic Sanger opened in the … Continue reading Abortion, gay marriage, gender identity all traced to Margaret Sanger’s theology of evil
by Thindboy • Created 8 years ago • Modified 8 years ago – IMDB This is not a Top 10 or whatever list. This List contains all the Monsters of the Week Episodes of The X-Files. These Episodes are not necessary to watch to follow … Continue reading The X-Files: All Monsters of the Week Episodes
Aishwarya Kumar, ESPN.com – Jul 28, 2024, 07:00 AM ET My cmnt: This is a very in-depth article on Jordan Larson. She bares her soul to the reader. God bless her in her journey though life. My cmnt: A professional … Continue reading Jordan Larson’s quest for fairy-tale ending at Paris Olympics
Gov. Jim Pillen arrives to give his closing remarks at the Capitol in April. Pillen on Thursday celebrated that news that Pornhub plans to go dark in Nebraska next month when the state’s new age verification law takes effect.JUSTIN WAN, … Continue reading Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen says ‘good riddance’ as Pornhub plans to go dark in Nebraska
So much has been made about Barack Obama’s religion. But what does he believe, and how did he arrive at those beliefs? by Lisa Miller – July 12, 2008 – Newsweek My cmnt: Click here to read The God Factor … Continue reading Finding His Faith – Obama’s 2008 interview with Newsweek
September 11, 1858 – Abraham Lincoln – University of Michigan I have been requested to give a concise statement, as I understand it, of the difference between the Democratic and the Republican parties on the leading issues of this campaign. … Continue reading Lincoln’s Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois – 1858
Note: You can read the Ten Commandments here in Deuteronomy 5. It is important to note that not everything in the Ten Commandments is a negative “Thou shall not” for there are two “Thou shall”s in there also. The fourth … Continue reading The Law of God contains TWO positive commands
Guy Benson | July 11, 2024 | Townhall.com Just to preface this post, no, I’m still not ‘over’ the pandemic, and various government responses to it. It seems as though a lot of people just want to put all that unpleasantness behind us as a society, and move on, but we cannot do that. ‘Authoritarianism’ is a word that gets tossed about with reckless abandon, typically to describe virtually anything the Left opposes, but COVID triggered an extraordinary avalanche of authoritarian edicts — many rooted in extremely dubious science, or none at all. Bureaucrats and politicians declared that we must “follow … Continue reading Surprise: Two Fresh, Inconvenient Truths About COVID Again Undermine the ‘Experts’
July 3, 2024 7:16 pm Veronica Barreto – KLKNtv My cmnt: “Protect Women and Children” is the pro-Life amendment. Please get out and vote for this amendment to remove the curse of abortion-on-demand (i.e., kill your unwanted baby) from Nebraska. Remember, to the democrat party and the worldwide Left, sex is a religion and abortion is their sacrament. LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Nebraskans are likely to vote on abortion in November after two petitions on opposite sides of the issue turned in far more signatures than required. Four petitions on this issue were circulating in the state, but only two … Continue reading More than 200,000 sign dueling Nebraska abortion petitions, likely setting up November battle
Happy Father’s Day! Enjoy today’s bonus roundup. On this special day, a quick, encouraging commentary on the disastrous war on fathers, which traces back to the beginning of all our current troubles. JEFF CHILDERS – JUN 16, 2024 – Coffee & Covid My cmnt: I was having a conversation with my adult son the other day about the difference between the evil that occasionally occurs on the American political Right vs the constant evil emanating from the American political Left. This column below by Jeff Childers illustrates this difference. When the conservative Right does evil it is the natural kind … Continue reading ☕️ FATHERS ☙ Sunday, June 16, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
The Ben Shapiro Show – transcript provided by DeepCast.fm My cmnt: Ben Shapiro interviewed Pastor John MacArthur on 06/09/24 on his show. MacArthur provided this insight into God’s command. MacArthur is addressing the issue of Israel today needing to utterly … Continue reading Why Did God Command Saul to Eliminate the Amalekites?
By Amy Furr – 28 Jun 2024 – Breitbart My cmnt: This is such a no-brainer. Of course the Bible s/b taught in all of the nation’s public schools – as it once was. My own father said, matter of … Continue reading ‘A Cornerstone of Western Civilization’: Oklahoma Requires Schools to Teach the Bible in Classrooms
by John J. DiIulio, Jr. – Spring 2024 – Claremont Review of Books In 1982, Glenn C. Loury—who will turn 76 in September this year – but charmingly refers to himself as “aging”—became Harvard’s first tenured African-American professor of economics. … Continue reading Raw Truth – Glenn Loury Comes Home
The Ben Shapiro Show – 06/23/24 – deepcast.fm The episode features a wide-ranging conversation between Ben Shapiro and economist Glenn Loury, covering topics such as race relations in America, the trajectory of Loury’s political views over time, and his relationship … Continue reading A Conversation between Ben Shapiro & Glenn Loury
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Tuesday, March 16, 2021 – The Christian Post Candice Wiggins, 34, is a WNBA champion. | Facebook/Candice Wiggins Former WNBA star Candice Wiggins sees herself as a non-traditional Christian who has walked a rocky road. … Continue reading WNBA champion who says she was bullied in league for being straight shares how faith kept her
By Ben Shapiro – Jun 20, 2024 – DailyWire.com My cmnt: Shapiro, a conservative (observant) Jew, makes many great points here about what the 1st amendment means and doesn’t. The Louisiana governor signed into law legislation that requires a poster-sized display … Continue reading Bring Back The Ten Commandments
Katherine Hamilton – 19 Jun 2024 – Breitbart A poster-sized copy of the Ten Commandments is required to be displayed in every public school classroom in Louisiana under a bill signed into law on Wednesday. Louisiana is the first state … Continue reading Louisiana Becomes First State to Require Ten Commandments to Be Displayed in Public School Classrooms
On the Jews On Palestine Romans 9:1-5 Paul’s Anguish Over Israel 1I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— 2I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3For I could wish … Continue reading Mark Twain: quotes on the Jews
The writer who inspired Fiddler on the Roof shouldn’t be mistaken for a mere spinner of artless folktales. By William Deresiewicz – The Atlantic – Jan/Feb 2014 Dracula, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe: it takes a special kind of greatness for a literary character to … Continue reading The Jewish Mark Twain
From Roughing It, Chapter 16 – University of Virginia My cmnt: Having grownup in the Regurgitated Mormon church and having read the BOM cover to cover multiple times I have a fair familiarity with its contents, story and meaning. Mr. … Continue reading Mark Twain’s take on The Book of Mormon
A new proposal seeks to solve the paradox of quantum spin BY ADAM BECKER – NOVEMBER 22, 2022 – Scientific American The fact that electrons have the quantum property of spin is essential for our world as we know it. Yet … Continue reading Quantum Particles Aren’t Spinning. So Where Does Their Spin Come From?
By J.P. Moreland – Sep. 30, 2018 – thinkr.org My cmnt: I am a paying member of think.org and so will occasionally post something here I find of value and interest and that I see as germane to issues of today. What You’ll Learn: It’s a common claim that science alone gives us knowledge. As a result, Christian faith has become marginalized as a myth, without any factual basis. Yet, argues philosopher J.P. Moreland, this view called “scientism” is itself a philosophical assumption and not the conclusion of scientific observation. Science must utilize a great deal of philosophy before it … Continue reading Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology
Mass immigration’s self-destructive effects. by Adam Candeub – Spring 2023 – Claremont Review of Books Garett Jones has written a scandalous book. The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left … Continue reading illegal immigration brings Cultural Baggage
The Six Days of Genesis by Mick Lindgren 06/06/11 My cmnt: Please note, that as with the three interpretations of the Millennium held by Bible-believing Christians, there are three valid interpretations of Genesis One. The 24 hour, consecutive day … Continue reading The Six Days of Genesis
A memorial of flowers is set up on a table outside the clubhouse building for 45-year-old Ronald Gonzalez-Rivas and 42-year-old Christopher Karmazin at The Lodge Apartment complex in Lincoln.KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star The 27-year-old Lincoln woman accused of purposefully running over … Continue reading Lincoln woman who killed two in hit-and-run tried to kill third man, police allege
My cmnt: Of course we’ve all heard of the insanity defense. The issue is not whether so-called experts in mental health and state of mind, typically psychiatrists, deem a criminal defendant not responsible for their heinous actions the issue is … Continue reading Judge finds Lincoln woman not responsible by reason of insanity
By Ben C. Dunson – April 27, 2023 – American Reformer On seeking a just order in this world The Blessings of Cultural Christianity? I am the beneficiary of cultural Christianity. I didn’t grow up in a genuinely Christian home, though I did attend (very) liberal United Methodist churches beginning in elementary school. These churches did not believe the Bible was true, did not believe in the supernatural events of Scripture, nor the moral teaching of God’s word. And yet Christianity was the very air I breathed all through my childhood and teenage years. I spent most of my childhood … Continue reading Cultural Christianity is about Culture
By Ben C. Dunson – April 5, 2024 – American Reformer Or: Sawing off the branch that holds you up Perhaps to the surprise of many, Richard Dawkins, famed “New Atheist” of yesteryear, in a recent radio interview called himself … Continue reading Richard Dawkins’ Cultural Christianity
By Amy Furr – 25 May 2024 – Breitbart My cmnt: Who are the ones who ban books, suppress free speech, promote violence, riot and destroy private property, cancel people, dox people, practice anti-Semitism, support butchering terrorists, murder babies (in … Continue reading ‘Speak Out for Truth’: Harrison Butker Has No Regrets After Commencement Address Controversy
By Peter Wood – 29 August 2022, 9:00am – The Spectator Professor James H. Sweet is a temperate man. He seeks to avoid extremes. But he also seeks to be bold in his temperance. You can do that by emphatically stating an opinion that seems above reproach. But Professor Sweet miscalculated. His emphatic bromide blew up, and he was left offering emphatic apologies. For those who have not followed this little academic circus, Professor Sweet, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is also the president of the American Historical Association (AHA). That’s an important post. The … Continue reading One worldview has taken over the historical profession
By Elizabeth Weibel – 24 May 2024 – Breitbart My cmnt: Please see below other articles about Christian missionaries being kidnapped, raped and killed by the local democrat gangs of various democrat-run countries. Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker (R) revealed … Continue reading Missouri Lawmaker Reveals Missionary Daughter, Son-in-Law Killed by Gangs in Haiti
I’ve heard the terms “Fur Baby” and “The Universe” a lot lately (last ten years). A fur baby is a puppy (or cat) and the universe is a non-gendered, impersonal Karma-like force. The Universe replaces the false, Western idea of … Continue reading As Dogs replace Babies, The Universe replaces God
A feral child is a human child who has lived away from human contact from a very young age and has little or no experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, human language. Feral children are confined … Continue reading Feral Children: The Story of Amala and Kamala
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Title of Work: The Reason for God – Author of Work: Timothy Keller Reviewer: Pastor Souksamay Phetsanghane – for Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary The Reason for God, by Timothy Keller. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2008. 251 pages. Timothy Keller is a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. He serves at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (www.redeemer.com) in Manhattan, which he and his wife started in 1989. The church currently has about six thousand regular attendees at six weekly services. He was educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. The Reason for God reached #7 on The New York Times bestseller list … Continue reading Review: The Reason For God – by Timothy Keller
Why have young women been so prominent in the recent campus chaos? Heather Mac Donald – City Journal – May 9, 2024 My cmnt: Anyone over sixty saw firsthand the BeatleMania driven almost exclusively by females. When I was talking with my aged mother about this she offhandedly remarked about going to a Frank Sinatra concert attended almost exclusively by young women and screaming with all the other girls. Hysteria (a word derived via Latin from Greek husterikos ‘of the womb’, from hustera ‘womb’) has from ancient times been observed to be more specific to women especially when they form mobs. In general women emote first and rationalize later … Continue reading Hysterics for Hamas
Dennis Prager | May 07, 2024 – Townhall.com My cmnt: Dennis calls them “sick Jews”. That is too mild a description so I changed it to the more appropriate term “deranged”. He explains below why some Jews hate other Jews for being Jews. I doubt that there is any national or religious group that produces the percentage of people who aid those who wish to hurt, let alone kill, that group as do Jews. When one observes Jews who defend those whose raison d’etre is the annihilation of the one Jewish country on Earth, you have to ask: Why are there … Continue reading Some Jews are simply deranged
What Francis hath wrought. books reviewed The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope by Robert Royal – Winter 2019 – Claremont Review of Books Even when, as at present, the Catholic Church exercises very little direct political or social power, its continued witness to the world after two millennia retains a compelling grandeur. Empires rise and fall, revolutions come and go, but the Church—miraculously—endures, despite great internal troubles, a great pre-modern bulwark in the modern day against shallow rationalism and moral relativism. And so when the Catholic Church seems to have become unsure, or divided, about its own … Continue reading Is the Pope Catholic?
Robert George5-Minute Videos – Nov 29, 2021 – Prager U Was America founded to be a secular nation? In other words, does religion have no role in American politics or public policy-making? The answer is more complex than you might think. Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, explains. (This video was made possible through our partnership with Dallas Baptist University.) It has become a dogma of progressive ideology that America is a “secular” nation. What do people mean by secular? Their argument goes this way: “Since the Constitution establishes a strict separation of church and state, religion has … Continue reading Is America’s Government Secular?
Robert George 5-Minute Videos – Oct 04, 2021 – Prager U If you ask Americans to name their country’s form of government, most of them will say they live in a democracy. However, the real answer is more complicated (and … Continue reading The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic
Robert George5-Minute Videos – Jul 18, 2022 – Prager U Winning the War of Independence brought a new challenge to the American people: what sort of government should they choose for their new nation? Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, explores the problems the founders faced at this pivotal moment in history. Against all odds, the Americans won their War of Independence. But their success brought a new challenge—no less daunting. What sort of government should they choose for themselves? How could they ensure that the tyranny of the English king George III would not be replaced by … Continue reading The Constitution: Why a Republic?
– by Lord Buckbeak My own children have asked me many times what good is the church. Sometimes it’s hard to answer. My personal belief is that without formal worship we will drift away from the worship and obedience of … Continue reading Why we go to Church …
Easter, which has its ultimate meaning in the resurrection, is one of ancient history’s most scrutinized and best-attested events. By: Scott S. Powell – March 29, 2024 – 6 min read – The Federalist From the beginning of recorded history, … Continue reading Easter Is The World’s Most Historically Verified Holiday
Lord Buckbeak: "Will you come into my parlor?," said the Spider to the Fly. 