Category: Blog Archive
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Gore Vidal and the Sky God
Source: The Christian Post | R. Albert Mohler, Jr. From the essay: Gore Vidal was a controversialist, but in making this argument, he was simply saying aloud what many others in his social class and literary circles were thinking. He outlived most of his contemporaries and critics, but he lived a tragic life and he…
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Paul Bunyan Meets the Intractable East: A Tribute to Fr. Peter Guillquist
– Source: Orthodox Christian Laity | George Matsoukas The mission is ongoing The Orthodox Christian Laity Board OCL was blessed to have Father Peter Gillquist as an advisor for more than 12 years. From day one, when I met him, he was bigger than life. Physically he was tall, robust and exuberant in nature. He…
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A Religious Freedom Election
Source: The Weekly Standard | Wesley J. Smith A court case in Colorado shows what’s at stake this fall. A recent federal trial court ruling has warmed the hearts of social conservatives and civil libertarians alike. A judge in Colorado on July 27 protected a Catholic-owned small business against the “free birth control rule”—which requires…
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Dismantling of a Culture
Source: National Review Online | Kathryn Jean Lopez America’s elites now disdain the rest of America. David Gelernter, the Yale professor of computer science, has an alarming yet cautiously exuberant book out, America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats). He tells us where we are and how and why we…
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Wesley J. Smith: Freedom of Worship’s Assault on Freedom of Religion
– From the essay: Freedom of religion means the right to live according to one’s own faith, that is, to “manifest” our religion or belief in practice, both “in public or private,” without interference from the state. Strident secularism is on the march and freedom of religion is the target, with secularist warriors attempting to…