Category: news
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NewsThe Top 5 most overlooked articles of 2017
Next week we’re going to share a Top 10 of the most popular article we’ve published in 2017, but today we’re sharing 5 articles that…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Dec 16, 2017
Ten books every teenager should read It isn’t important that your son or daughter has read all the books on this list, or even any….
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NewsScience politicized: when democracy doesn’t suffice anymore
In the West most citizens take pride in their democratic institutions, pointing to how it’s through democracy that change can be peaceably pursued. Of course,…
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NewsCanadian couples may have had adoption/fostering nixed because of their Christianity
An Alberta couple filed a lawsuit in November, accusing provincial authorities of discrimination after their application to adopt a child was rejected. The suit claims…
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NewsOutraged all the time: why Christians can’t be
When the weekend edition of the Daily Mail reported that British schools were swapping out BC and AD for BCE and CE to avoid offending…
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NewsSurvey: the US is a nation of heretics
A survey conducted last year by LifeWay Research and commissioned by Ligonier Ministries has found that most core Christian beliefs are lost on Americans in…
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Saturday Selections – Nov 11, 2017
It’s not about the cake When a gay couple tries to force a Christian baker to make their wedding cake, it isn’t about the cake…
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Saturday Selections – Nov 4, 2017
Sing a little louder As we approach Remembrance Day, this powerful nine-minute film serves as a reminder that there are battles to be fought today…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Oct 21, 2017
Welcoming vs. affirming In the LGBTQ debate there is a demand that for a church to be welcoming, it must also affirm people’s lifestyle. Trevin…
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Saturday Selections – Sept 30, 2017
This edition has been brought to you by the number 6: six items, six actions, and six surprises…. God painted ants on fruit fly wings…
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NewsDestruction only destroys – the “broken window fallacy”
We are halfway into the 2017 hurricane season and tropical mega-storms in the Atlantic basin have already broken several records. Hurricane Irma has sustained its…
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NewsCanadian colonialism dressed up as aid
Red tomatoes and purple onions pile in front of her. Behind is sugar, bagged by the kilo. Bottles of Fanta and 7-Up stand on a…
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NewsRestaurant chain won’t compromise on the 4th Commandment
The Chick-fil-A restaurant in the brand-new stadium of the National Football League’s Atlanta Falcons is going to be closed on all but one of the…
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NewsMedia bias and Australia’s marriage debate
This month and next Australians are being given the opportunity to have their say on same-sex “marriage.” The Liberal-National (LNP) coalition ran their election campaign…
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Saturday selections – Sept 9, 2017
A baker’s half dozen worth of articles from Reformed and other sources that were just too good not to share… A new translation of Schilder’s…
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Saturday selections – Aug 25, 2017
A baker’s half dozen of the best articles this week from Reformed and others sources…. Thou shalt not bail How many people are coming to…
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Saturday selections – Aug 12, 2017
The best articles this week, from Reformed and others sources…. What is the Shia Sunni divide? Did you know some observant Muslims pray only three…
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NewsDr. Jordan Peterson on…
On outwitting the obstructionists At a talk at Harvard in mid-April earlier this year Dr. Jordan Peterson shared advice on how we can bring back…
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NewsHave the MTV Awards set the stage for a transgender/feminist throw down?
At this year’s MTV Movie and TV Awards, actress Emma Watson was the proud recipient of what she called the “first acting award in history…
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NewsWhy euthanasia restrictions fail – “safeguards” become “barriers to access”
Canada’s doctor-assisted suicide law is barely a year old, and already the safeguards in it are being challenged. The most recent challenge was this June…
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NewsWhat if speeding tickets were paid to charities?
As Kuyper said, “There is not one square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not…
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NewsPregnant student banned from grad walk – did both sides get it half right, or, in other words, wrong?
Should a pregnant student be allowed to walk with her class at graduation? That wouldn’t even be a question in any secular school, but it…
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NewsDid the Church fathers take Genesis literally?
In this 49-minute lecture, Dr. Todd Wood answers the objection that “scientific creationism” is only a recent phenomenon. As he shows by going to the…
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NewsCanada’s conspiracy-proof elections
Controversy over Scheer’s leadership win highlights just how blessed we are to have our unimpeachable federal electoral system Days after Andrew Scheer won a close,…
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News“Gender confirmation”? Why words matter
In a May article FoxNews.com used a new term for what it has to this point commonly called “sex change operations.” In reporting on a…
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NewsCrass comedian challenges pro-choice allies…and pro-lifers too
Louis C.K. is a vulgar, blasphemous and very pro-abortion comedian whose latest comedy special is certain to have upset many of his pro-abortion allies. He…
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NewsPorn and the smartphone: parents should be freaking out
In a May 2 piece in the American Conservative, journalist Rod Dreher said that when he goes to speak at Christian colleges, the professors, staffers…
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NewsNew “Anne” of Green Gables TV series doesn’t improve on the old
In March, CBC Television debuted a new TV series based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. The show, titled Anne, received rave reviews…
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NewsBrad Trost’s missed opportunity is ours too
Conservative Party leadership candidate Brad Trost caught some heat recently, from the party’s interim leader Rona Ambrose, after he sent out an email to his…
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NewsUniversity demands trigger warnings for pro-life display. But why?
“The event conducted just beyond this sign may contain triggering and/or sensitive material. Right to life and or Pro-life messages and imagery are some of…
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NewsUS VP loves his wife – people outraged!
When The Washington Post recently ran a profile of US Vice-President Mike Pence, one line caused a twitter-storm of controversy. Author Ashley Parker wrote: In…
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NewsStill want to win the lottery?
“The next Lotto 6/49 jackpot is an estimated 16 million dollars.” When you hear something like that, the temptation is to imagine how that sum…
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Media biasNow YOU are the media
What do you think the public needs to read, hear, and see? If you had your own media outlet what sort of news would you…
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NewsHow should Christians celebrate the good Donald Trump has done?
Within the first two weeks of being inaugurated, President Donald Trump has: Signed off on the “Mexico City Policy” which bans federal funds from going…
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NewsConscience protection – maybe now the Left will understand
Normally it can be quiet a coup to design a dress for the US First Lady, but in the weeks leading up to the inauguration…
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NewsThe push for boys to get HPV vaccination hits BC
Grade 6 student Nelson Roy thought it just wasn’t right that girls in his Vancouver school were getting the HPV vaccine for free, and the…