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Was Medieval Christendom Christian?0
- January/February 2021
- January 1, 2021
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland, Basic Books, 2019. 624 Pages. A #1 Christian church history book on Amazon. The only recorded encounter of Jesus with Greeks was shortly before His crucifixion. As John 12:20, 21 tells us, some Greeks asked through Philip to see Jesus. We are not told why
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Peace, Be Still 0
- November/December 2020
- November 1, 2020
As these words key into the computer file, I see off to the side news updates on the latest deluge to hit the Gulf Coast. Déjà Vu was never so debilitating. Again! Again! And are the still-smoldering fires out west just the latest in an ever-accelerating burnoff of the world as we know it? We
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The Collapse of Liberal Democracy 0
- November/December 2020
- November 1, 2020
We face an apocalypse. The specter of death and economic collapse spread by the COVID-19 pandemic, the convulsive mass protests over police brutality coalescing with multiple preexisting crises: such things as global warming, identity crisis, fraying social fabric, polarized politics, tribalism, mass discontent, failing states, and an unraveling global order. If we picture these crises
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On God and the Pandemic 0
- November/December 2020
- November 1, 2020
Here we go again. The eternal question of evil in the world springs up one more time. Why? Why does God, the almighty, all-powerful, all-knowing, allow evil, pandemics, plagues, wars, and viruses of all kinds to afflict His creatures on this earth? Trying to answer this question fully is an impossible task. I shall not
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Speak Freely, Without Fear 0
- November/December 2020
- November 1, 2020
In early America dissenting Baptists played a key role in the fight for religious liberty and the disestablishment of state churches. But while many Baptists fought for liberty for themselves, only a few fought for religious liberty for everyone. John Leland was one of those few. Leland was not only the most prominent Baptist but
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Freedom of Assembly 0
- November/December 2020
- November 1, 2020
On May 1, 2020, my wife and I flew to Sacramento, California, to pray for our state and to demonstrate our right to peaceably assemble and stand up for what we knew was an abomination to God. Nearly 2,000 others joined us in a peaceful patriotic assembly on the steps and the lawn of our
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