In Massachusetts, a mom who stopped her son’s cancer medicines has been convicted of attempted murder.
Apparently, the son had autism, the mom was not a pristine heroine but a mom who resented being burdened with a handicapped son, and so when he developed a cancer that had a good cure rate with chemotherapy, she didn’t […]

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While doing some investigation into the history of epidemics, I came across this fact in an article about Native American women veterans, many of whom served as nurses in the US Military.
  Four Native American Catholic Sisters from Fort […]

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There is an old comedy monologue by the late Alan Sherman where he explains why he got fat: As a boy, his mother reminded him that people were starving in Europe, so he needed to eat everything on his plate.
So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day.
Because somehow I felt that […]

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Phllip Jenkins has an interesting article on how fertility is falling in the Muslim world.
In just the last thirty years or so, those very Middle Eastern countries that used to teem with children and adolescents have gone through a startling demographic transformation. Since the mid-1970s, Algeria’s fertility rate has collapsed from over 7 to 1.75, […]

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If you live in the Philippines, the big news of the day is sorrow and anger that China has executed three of our OFW (overseas foreign workers) for carrying drugs into China.
The anger is partly because two of the “drug mules” were women with families, and many Filipinos who have family members overseas shudder at […]

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I am aghast at a lot of the news coming out of US sites about what is going on in Libya.
First, there are the “ain’t it awful” posts, lamenting that the side backed by the West hasn’t won yet, (in 7 whole days).
Second, they find out that some of those revolting are Islamicists. Well, duh. […]

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In the wow, just wow category, Bryan Fischer continued his supremacist ways by stating that constitutional guarantees of freedom of  religion applies only to Christians. To wit:
Islam has no fundamental First Amendment claims, for the simple reason that it was not written to protect the religion of Islam. Islam is entitled only to the religious […]

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Yes, we should.
It is past time for evangelicals to express remorse and regret to Native Americans for the mistreatment they experienced at the hands of Christians throughout the history of the nation. Although President Obama signed a resolution of apology in 2009 on behalf of the nation, evangelical groups should also […]

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ArcheologyNews reports that a researcher claims Henry VIII didn’t die of a combination of syphillis, obesity related diabetes and malaria, (and perhaps a bit mentally unstable from cerebral syphilis and the mercury used back then to treat it).
No, they claim it was a rare complication of the Kells’ antigen called McLeod syndrome.
Research conducted by […]

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He used to be a committed Christian; then he became a convinced atheist; and now businessman and entrepreneur Geoff Crocker is arguing that even unbelievers should be able to find meaning and significance in religion.
Reading his new book, An Enlightened Philosophy: Can an atheist believe anything? it is clear that Crocker is as sick of virulent atheism […]

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When I heard that there had been a Native American prayer at the memorial ceremony in Tucson, I was not surprised.
When I lived on Indian Reservations, we commonly had such prayers at most ceremonies or meeting. But for memorial services, we often also had Christian clergy (usually either Anglican or Catholic) give a prayer. Tribes […]

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Peace on Earth, Goodwill to men…except in the headlines.
You see headlines about NATO troops killed in Afghanistan. Yes, that nasty war is still going on. But the headlines don’t put it into perspective: the Taliban wants to stop education of girls, and any western type education for anyone. But the headlines don’t talk about positive […]

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Ordering the US military to enlist openly homosexual men and women is being pushed as a civil rights matter, with everyone quietly ignoring the “elephant in the living room”: sexual activity.
A similar “elephant” was ignored when women were integrated with their male colleagues in the military. Yes, there was a fairly high pregnancy rate, but […]

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As the opening act of the Greatest Story Ever Told, each character mentioned in the Christmas narrative has had a number of literary traditions and homiletical assumptions added that may or may not be directly traceable to the text of the Holy Bible.  One of these is none other than the Innkeeper.
When we are confronted […]

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Author John L. Betcher boldly places the existence of God on trial in his extraordinary new book A Higher Court: One Man’s Search for the Truth of God’s Existence.

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China has already used it’s economic clout to intimidate many countries to boycott the Nobel Prize cermony that honors their poet Liu Xiaobo.
This boycott has gotten them criticism from some human rights groups, including those in our Philippines.
The ability and willingness of China to use it’s economic clout for political purposes is a very important […]

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A lot of fundamentalist Christians see radical environmentalism as a neo pagan religion, so when some bimbo invoked a Mayan goddess, it was sure to raise a few eyebrows.
From the WashingtonPost:
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered […]

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On Facebook, some friends noted they watched the “Day of the Dead” celebration in California and Tuscon. This is a Mexican custom which not so much “celebrates death” as it mocks death, and in most Latin American countries, it now coincides with All Saints day (November 1) and All Soul’s day (November 2), the days […]

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One of my friends on facebook always posts an “ain’t it awful” post from the leftwing blogosphere. Usually it’s about some unknown preacher who said some ridiculous thing, and it is in for her and her friends to use this to bash all Christians, even those of us on the liberal side of Christianity. I […]

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“If you read it and you were not Christian, would you not feel welcome to rent there?”
Seriously? Is this Haynes woman any relation to Nancy Pelosi? She sure sounds just as light-headed.

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I saw the word "Jesus" on the sleeves of the shirts on the Chilean miners as they came up, one by one, in the capsule.  (Yeah, we had the streaming video going as I worked from home.  What a terrific event.)  But no news organization so much as mentioned the other writings on those shirts.
Thus […]

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When a major news outlet incorrectly implies that Catholics think Test Tube babies are not children in the eyes of God, I must simply protest.
From USA TODAY:
‘Test tube babies’: God’s work or human error?
Do you think a baby conceived in test tube is still a child in the eyes — or mind or […]

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I abhor the anti Muslim bigotry that lies behind the entire kerfuffle about some bigoted “pastor” getting his ten minutes of worldwide fame threatening to burn a Koran.
We Catholics put up with this type of ignorance for the last 250 years in the US. In the past, they picketed May processions/fiestas, telling us we are […]

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If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words:

“Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people.

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Ah, the wonders of organic farming and living in a rural tropical paradise.
Right now, we are in the middle of rice growing season (which started later than usual because the rains came late). So time to make the fertilizer.
To grow organic rice, it means more preparation of the fields (plowing under and flooding the fields […]

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Written By: John Sullivan
The Palestinian terror organization Hamas, in their refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist, is determined to railroad any peace treaty that may be attained from talks that started this Thursday. Dismissing Hamas is not an easy adventure, this week they executed back to back attacks on Israelis in the West Bank. […]

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With all the hyperbolic political rhetoric in the blogosphere, one wonders if the American people are indeed “having a temper tantrum”.
Or maybe the patience of the American people with political correctness is now finished.
Example one: After years of the American public watching news reports of suicide bombings,  or lashing raped women, destroying Hindu temples and […]

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The next theory of truth and religious knowledge is pragmatism.  Developed initially by Charles Sander Pierce and expanded by William James, pragmatism is the theory that truth is not determined by what one thinks, feels, or discovers but rather by what works.
Christians may instinctively recoil from this initially. However, the proper response to this epistemological […]

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The so called “Ground Zero Mosque” (the real name of the project is Park 51) is proposed as a 15-story Islamic Community Center containing a mosque, a swimming pool, and a 500-seat auditorium. Detractors first called the project the “WTC Mosque” but then someone came up with the name “Ground Zero Mosque” because that name […]

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Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, a former president of Chicago Theological Seminary and current senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, writes in the Washington Post today that fighting against the mosque in “Lower Manhattan” translates into an attempt to deny American Moslems the basic religious freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution.
“It is crucial that Americans […]

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