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News
Saturday Selections – Sept 26, 2026
What is Netflix doing to the Chronicles of Narnia? In the Empire magazine article linked above, the director of Netflix’s upcoming The Magician’s Nephew adaptation talks about how something she heard in the 1970s saved her life, assuring her she…
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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…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 2, 2020
An unborn baby kicking up a storm (30 seconds) Our value doesn’t come from what we can do – it comes from in Whose Image…
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Saturday Selections – April 25, 2020
Earth Day? Nah. (2 min) It was Earth Day this past Wednesday and once again the world celebrated creation even as it denied the Creator….
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NewsJoe Biden and the unworkable, unbiblical (but I repeat myself) “believe all women” standard
The presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Joe Biden, was accused of sexual assault in late March, and most of the mainstream media, and a key…
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Saturday Selections – April 18, 2020
Are you tolerant? (4 minutes) This is as funny as it is informative! Environmentalism has killed its millions Earth Day, April 22, is upon us…
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NewsDon’t wish you were here: illustrator’s National Park posters go viral
Illustrator Amber Share always wanted to create a vintage travel poster for each of the 63 National Parks in the United States. After sharing some…
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NewsStates, cities, reverse course on plastic bag bans
In 2007, San Francisco was the first city to ban regular single-use plastic bags, directing businesses to use compostable plastic bags, paper, or, preferably, reusable…
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NewsThe “religious ghost” behind Tim Tebow joining the Philippine national baseball team
Heisman-winning former college quarterback and now minor league baseball player Tim Tebow has accepted an invitation to play for the Philippine national team. Like every…
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Saturday Selections – April 11, 2020
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra: quarantine edition In this rousing, at-home rendition, the RPO plays Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” better known to many by the lyrics Henry…
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NewsThe TP we need in the COVID crisis: Trust & Perspective
Toilet paper (TP) has become a hot commodity. It’s hard to find. Just mention Charmin and it evokes a wide range of emotions: frustration, greed,…
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Saturday Selections – April 4, 2020
3 things to remember when you’re feeling anxious (3 min) “It’s striking that the most frequent command in the entire Bible is to not be…
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Saturday Selections – March 28, 2020
John MacArthur on the coronavirus crisis (17 minutes) While the coronavirus quarantine led to the canceling of the Ligonier conference, it freed up some time…
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NewsAn update on Conversion Therapy Bans in Canada
To fulfill an election promise, the federal Liberal government has introduced a bill to criminally ban conversion therapy. As I noted in my Nov/Dec article,…