Category: news
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NewsCalvin U’s student president is openly gay
For over 100 years, Reformed Christian parents have scrimped and saved for their children to study at Calvin College (now Calvin University), praying that these…
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NewsSaturday Selections – October 31, 2020
Robot hummingbird spies on half-billion butterflies (3 min) How do you get the inside scoop on 500 million wintering Monarch Butterflies? Send in a very…
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NewsSaturday Selections – October 24, 2020
Is Canada systematically discriminatory? The Christian Heritage Party’s Vicki Gunn gives an answer to that question that you might not have been expecting? Chinese Calvinist…
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NewsSaturday Selections – October 17, 2020
What color is the balloon? (2 min) “The funny things about truth is, it’s true…whether you believe it or not.” Teens did surprisingly well in…
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NewsSaturday Selections – October 10, 2020
3.5 billion miles of DNA in just little ol’ you (6 min) We each have enough linear length of DNA in us to stretch to…
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NewsNo, looting is not defensible
The first week after Vicky Osterweil’s book In Defense of Looting was published, its initial media coverage was positive, via an interview with US public…
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NewsSaturday Selections – October 3, 2020
What is hate speech, and why should we be leery of banning it? (5 minutes) Most everyone agrees that some sorts of speech need to…
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NewsVancouver ads presume big families hurt the planet
Ads popping up around Vancouver, BC encourage couples to reconsider any plans for having a big or even medium-sized family. Some of the ads read:…
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NewsSaturday Selections – September 26, 2020
A Christian take on Jordan Peterson the man, and the phenomenon (5 minutes) There’s much to admire about Jordan Peterson…but we don’t want to leave…
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NewsSaturday Selections – September 19, 2020
Chickens are fearfully and wonderfully made too! (4 minutes) This incredible video shows how a fertilized egg becomes a chicken and it is amazing! Should…
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NewsSaturday Selections – September 12, 2020
Who has measured the heavens with His fingers? (2 minutes) This video unpacks what’s contained in an area of space that you can cover with…
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NewsSaturday Selections – September 5, 2020
Well-intentioned racism is racism still (5 minutes) Uncle Tom is a new documentary about how American black conservatives are ridiculed as being traitors to their race….
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NewsSaturday Selections – August 29, 2020
50 Christians around the world sing Amazing Grace together This is something special, a glimpse of what it might sound like when “from every nation, from…
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NewsSaturday Selections – August 22, 2020
Stirring up trouble on behalf of the unborn (20 seconds) This week a pro-life group flew a “Black Lives Matter” banner over the site of…
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Articles – BooksThis isn’t your parents’ Archie Andrews
Back in 2015, Archie Andrews and his gang were official re-imagined for a new TV series called Riverdale – the fun-loving flirtatious teens were now murderous,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – August 15, 2020
Thomas Sowell on the benefit of the 10th Commandment While Thomas Sowell doesn’t mention the Bible, the point he makes here is a biblical one….
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NewsSaturday Selections – August 8, 2020
Our Kids Online: Porn, Predators & How to Keep Them Safe A new documentary making the rounds is an eye-opener and can be rented for $5…
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NewsSaturday Selections – August 1, 2020
Why this valedictorian regrets finishing on top (6 minutes) It took him a whole year to learn this lesson, and he’s happy to share it….
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NewsNetflix’s “The Baby-Sitters Club” sells transgenderism to its preteen/teen audience
From 1986 to 2000, the more than 200 Baby-Sitters Club titles sold more than 175 million copies to a target audience of teen and pre-teen…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 25, 2020
Don’t agree with me? I know why! It must be because you want people to die! When the economy was shuttered it was presented as…
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NewsMore birds than believers in church
This past Sunday I had the privilege of leading worship in my home congregation just outside of Hamilton, Ontario. I arrived about ten minutes before…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 18, 2010
Andrew Peterson’s Is He Worthy (5 minutes) When the words and music are perfectly paired… Learn how to defend the unborn (15-minute read) Apologist Greg Koukl…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 11, 2020
Miracles happen… John Barros has been walking back and forth outside an Orlando abortion clinic, reaching out to the mothers, long enough to wear a…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 4, 2020
Reformed College ad causes a wonderful fuss When a Reformed college put out the recruitment ad below – starring their small town’s newly built washrooms…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 27, 2020
Is Critical Theory Biblical? (6 min) If you haven’t heard of Critical Theory, you’ve likely encountered aspects of it: wokeness, white privilege, identity politics, and…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 20, 2020
Homosexuality vs. transgenderism This video below is fantastic, but there’s a lot packed in here, so the argument is worth writing out as well. What…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 13, 2020
Dandelions: more amazing than you knew! (4 minutes) I’ve shown this to all my kids – same reaction from all of them: “Wow!” When someone…
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News“Black lives matter” isn’t always about black lives
On May 25 a Minneapolis black man, George Floyd, died in handcuffs while three police officers kneeled on him, including one, Derek Chauvin, who was…
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NewsDutch scientists find Gouda, Edam may help fight COVID-19
This is the sort of headline to have you checking whether it isn’t April 1 today. But the report is genuine. As The Guardian’s Daniel…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 6, 2020
Stepping up by stepping away Warren Barfield was once best known for his songs The Time is Now, and the one below, Love Is Not a Fight. But then,…
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NewsRacism is wrong…
Racism is wrong. The Minneapolis police officer, holding his knee on George Floyd’s neck for a lengthy period of time, may have been motivated racially,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 30, 2020
Dolphin sonar is incredibly designed! (4 min) The many different components of dolphins’ echolocation system allows it such a level of precision it can tell…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 23, 2020
Surfin is illegal in the USA: A Beach Boys parody (2 min) There’s no better way to kill the funny than to discuss a joke….
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 16, 2020
What’s the Reformed perspective on the UFO videos? (1-hour podcast) Last month the Pentagon declassified three videos of what they termed “unexplained aerial phenomena.” The…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 9, 2020
A whale of an evolution tale (10 minutes) The evolution of whales has been touted as “one of the best examples of an evolutionary transition.”…
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NewsPoll: More Canadians condemn plastic straws than abortion
An Angus Reid poll, conducted in January of this year, asked 1,528 Canadians for their moral perspectives on a wide variety of issues. Among the…