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December 2016

December 08, 2016

The Christmas wars throughout history

A new book by Gerry Bowler entitled Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing...

December 08, 2016

Person of the Year

Time Magazine's Person of the Year is Donald Trump. Of course it was. Who else...

December 08, 2016

Ancient scientists helping modern scientists

Contrary to the stereotypes about ancient and medieval knowledge and totally contradicting Mark Twain's depiction in Connecticut Yankee of...

December 07, 2016

From “the most humiliating year in our history” to victory

Today is the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Daily Oklahoman...

December 07, 2016

Vocation in Hacksaw Ridge

Notice how many movies are about vocation. For example, consider Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson's movie...

December 07, 2016

Red Letter Christians

Tony Campolo and some other liberal evangelicals have started a movement they call "Red Letter...

December 07, 2016

So why the loss of interest in the NFL?

Television ratings are way down for professional football games. The NFL is trying to figure...

December 06, 2016

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Another remarkable prophecy of Christ in the Old Testament (the study of which is a...

December 06, 2016

Trump’s diplomacy

The diplomatic establishment is all atwitter about Donald Trump's alleged gaffes, such as taking phone...

December 06, 2016

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Conversion as sacrament

BreakPoint editor G. Shane Morris, who now believes in infant baptism, explains why most of...

November 30, 2016

Abortion rate is lowest since before Roe v. Wade

The abortion rate has dropped to the lowest point since 1971, two years before Roe...

November 30, 2016

Getting rid of Trump via the 25th amendment

The latest fantasy on the left of how they can get rid of Donald Trump...

November 30, 2016

Now that men can become pregnant. . .

Now that gender has been disassociated from biology and is a matter of personal self-identification,...

November 29, 2016

“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows”

Studying the prophecies of Christ in the Old Testament during Advent is a good exercise....

November 29, 2016

“What good is a road if it doesn’t lead to a church?”

Rod Dreher has interviewed Eugene Vodolazkin, the author of Laurus, which we posted about yesterday. Read...

November 29, 2016

Alcohol vs. marijuana

California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada legalized recreational marijuana in the last election, joining Colorado, Washington,...

November 29, 2016

Last hope to deny Trump his election fizzles with recount fiasco

The Democrats and the Greenies missed the deadline to request a recount in Pennsylvania. Though...

November 28, 2016

Explaining Advent

Happy New Year! That is to say, Happy Advent, the beginning of the new church...

November 28, 2016

An epic Christian novel

I've just finished Laurus, a novel by the Russian author Eugene Vodolazkin, an Orthodox Christian,...

November 28, 2016

The future of “identity liberalism”

Liberals in politics have traditionally focused on issues of class, economics, and public policy. But...