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Alberta’s government follows Ontario’s lead into online gambling
Sometimes politicians admit more than they mean to. This past July, the Alberta minister in charge of gambling in the province, Dale Nally, made a curious statement while unveiling the province’s jump into online gambling. He expressed his wish that…
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NewsWhy haven’t we heard from ET?
Some 70 years ago physicist Enrico Fermi looked up at the stars and wondered where everyone was at. With billions of galaxies, each with billions…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 6, 2019
5 ways dads can encourage our daughters This isn’t all that long but it’s worth reading through slowly and considering how to put these into…
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NewsMale rapper “breaks” women’s weightlifting record
For a world increasingly confused about gender, February was an illuminating month with not one, but two well-publicized examples of how it is God, and…
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NewsCareer over kids: South Korean women aren’t having babies
A new report has South Korea population beginning to decline in just ten years’ time. Statistics Korea reported in late February that the country’s fertility…
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NewsBad news for PP is good news for unborn babies!
If something makes Planned Parenthood sad, then it’s likely there’s something for the unborn and their advocates to celebrate. That was certainly true when the…
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Saturday Selections – Mar. 30, 2019
Marijuana increases the risk of psychosis Marijuana is often presented as a near harmless indulgence. But a recent study finds that daily use increases the…
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Saturday Selections – March 23, 2019
#1 reason & #2 reason you shouldn’t worry about global warming In reason #1, Del Tackett and Dr. Larry Vardiman discuss how, when you understand…
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Saturday Selections – March 16, 2019
Turning pro-choicers into pro-lifers in seconds? (2 min) Ray Comfort has another 30-minute pro-life film, coming out on May 9. It will be freely available…
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Saturday Selections – March 9, 2019
How a bird is built (5 minutes) The creation of a bird is “an elaborate dance, it’s like a ballet taking place on a stage…
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Saturday Selections – Mar. 2, 2019
The Kara Tippets documentary is coming soon When an regular Christian mom was diagnosised with terminal cancer, she decided to share what she was learning…
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 23, 2019
Doing Jordan Peterson one better Jordan Peterson has inspired many a young man struggling with aimlessness. But Peterson isn’t Christian, so his answers can…
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 16, 2019
The Top 10 Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution (20-minute read) This is a long but fascinating introduction to the enormous problems with evolutionary…
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 9, 2019
Unplanned trailer This one looks interesting: Unplanned is the true story how Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson ended up defending the unborn. It’ll be in…
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 2, 2019
New government regulations shut down church program feeding the homeless Everyone understands that because government laws impact thousands and even millions, the government won’t be able…
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NewsThe leading cause of death in the world
The leading cause of death in 2018 was not heart disease or stroke or AIDS or cancer or traffic accidents. In a Dec. 31starticle, Brietbart.com’s…
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EconomicsThe $33/hr minimum wage?
As of January 1, the minimum wage in New York City was boosted to $15 an hour, a more than doubling of the $7.25 minimum…
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 26, 2019
For C.S. Lewis geeks only A new introduction to The Screwtape Letters has been found, and it turns out this manuscript didn’t first fall into Lewis’s hands, but…
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Apologetics 101Abortionist: “God performs way more abortions than I do…”
In a Dec. 29 tweet abortionist Leah Torres went viral by claiming: “God performs way more abortions than I do…” While pro-lifers were quick to…
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News26 richest people own as much as the world’s poorest 3.75 billion
The 26 richest people on the planet hold as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the world’s population. So says the Oxfam Inequality Report…
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Saturday Selections – January 19
Defending the unborn can be as simple as asking the other side to explain themselves Marie Kondo and her “life-changing magic” Marie Kondo and…
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NewsWho do you want to know better?
In a holiday ad (for Spanish speakers) the furniture giant IKEA gathered several families, seating each clan around a large table where a holiday feast…
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 12, 2019
Parents, should we pay our children to do their chores and homework? This isn’t a specifically Christian article, but it makes a point worth considering….
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 5, 2019
Is our galaxy in the center of many others? This is a tentative finding that the Institute for Creation Research urges Christians to hold onto…
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NewsMost overlooked articles of 2018
We’ve previously shared a Top-10 list of RP’s most popular posts of 2018. While every article on that list was fantastic, not every fantastic article was…
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 29, 2018
Mutations show devolution, not evolution (3 min) Beneficial mutations do happen, but they happen via a loss of information. And such information-losing mutations offer no explanation for…
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 22, 2018
Young love: what are you waiting for? When we get married isn’t always under our control. But there is a trend in the world, and…
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NewsMiss Universe pageant decides gender is only skin deep
The annual Miss Universe beauty contest was held this past Sunday, and while the winner was Miss Philippines, most of the attention was on a…
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NewsTop 10 articles of 2018
The top ten posts of 2018 show that Reformed folk have had wide-ranging interests this past year… #10. Movie Review: “I survived ‘I Kissed Dating…
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Saturday Selections – December 15, 2018
Merry Christmas from the moon On Dec. 24, 1968, three American astronauts, orbiting the moon for the first time ever, had an opportunity to give…
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NewsGenetically-engineered babies have now been born
Human experimentation has been happening around the world for the past four decades, with research scientists actively carrying out experiments on human embryos. The stated…
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Saturday Selections – December 8, 2018
Christian professor pressured to call male student by female pronouns The professor agreed to avoid using pronouns altogether and just use the student’s last name, but…
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NewsWhat’s in a name? Payless prank had people paying $600 for their shoes
Payless sells their shoes for as low as $20. So why were people paying $200, $400, and even $600 for their shoes a month before Christmas?…
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 1, 2018
The lowly dandelion is way cooler than we knew Scientists have discovered that dandelions use a never-before-discovered means of flight. Parents, discipline is not about…
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NewsBacking away from Big Brother: government overreach doesn’t just happen in China
Who should get to decide what information you see? And who would you trust with your own personal information? On the other side of the…
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Saturday Selections – Nov. 17, 2018
Canadian doctors get ready for child euthanasia Doctors and bioethicists associated with the children’s hospital in Toronto are pushing to be “allowed to euthanize ‘capable minors’… without…
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Saturday Selections – Nov. 3, 2018
Do you read the Bible literally? Stand to Reason‘s Greg Koukl on how reading the Bible literally isn’t the same as reading it woodenly (10-minute…