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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 – January 23, 2021
The magical birth canal The state of things under Canadian law… How to enjoy wealth to the glory of God In 1 Tim 6:17-19, the…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 16, 2021
Sea shanties go viral (7 min) If you have boys who think singing is girly, there’s a new viral trend of men singing manly. For…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 9, 2021
It ain’t not possible to be more wronger For the English teachers out there… Snowflake adoption is wonderful, but it is not the solution “For…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 2, 2021
Faster, faster! (5 min) Two friends race down a marble maze – it’s some innocent fun for the kids. These buddies also appear in “Don’t…
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News5 most overlooked article of 2020
Last week we shared our 10 most popular posts of 2020, all of which got thousands of reads. In contrast, the readership for each of our…
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NewsSaturday Selections – December 26, 2020
Do college kids know the difference between men and women? (4 min) It takes a lot of education to get things this wrong (and this…
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News2020’s Top 10 articles
It’s not surprising that three of 2020’s top articles addressed the coronavirus and governments’ responses to it. But, in a blast from the past, C.S….
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NewsSaturday Selections – December 19, 2020
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is not a Christmas song (1 min) Like many a pop song, the lyrics of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah are hard to decipher but…
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NewsA conversation on authority
It was the type of conversation that, in other circumstances, the two friends might have had at a quiet pub, over a couple of beers….
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NewsA great grandma 100 times over…and counting
In mid-October, 92-year-old Elizabeth Vreugdenhil got to meet her namesake Elizabeth Grim – this newborn was her 100th great-grandchild! Getting to hold her Canadian great-granddaughter was…
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NewsSaturday Selections – December 12, 2020
John Piper and Tedashii on the need for Christians to make war Not everyone will love the musical genre, but it’s a good match to…
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NewsSaturday Selections – December 5, 2020
Living clouds (5 min) How do they do it? Thousands of starlings, flying at speeds of 50 miles per hour, moving in such precision together…
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News29-year-old mom gives birth to 27-year-old baby
It’s a headline that seems better suited to National Enquirer, but it gets crazier still. The 29-year-old mother, Tina Gibson, doesn’t have just one baby…
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NewsEquality found in the Bible, not on the football field
After COVID quarantines eliminated their other kickers, the Vanderbilt Commodores football team turned to Sarah Fuller. The starting goalkeeper for the university’s women’s soccer team,…
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NewsThe Regulative Principle and church lockdowns
*** “All of Manitoba moves to CRITICAL (RED) on #restartMB pandemic response system” So declares a press statement from the Government of Manitoba. With those…
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NewsSaturday Selections – November 28, 2020
Lockdowns: if it saves one life? (3 min) It’s not simply lives vs. money. Some lives are being endangered by the lockdowns to the extent…
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NewsDutch make it easier to kill patients with advanced dementia
Like many countries around the world, the Netherlands has been imposing shutdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19, a virus that is particularly dangerous to…
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NewsSaturday Selections – November 21, 2020
Can God make a square circle? (5 minutes) Apologist Tim Barnett offers his own great answer in the video below, and if you want a…
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NewsJay Adams, father of modern biblical counseling movement, dies
Dr. Jay Edward Adams (1929-2020) died on Nov. 14 at the age of 91. For those who don’t already know his name, Adams could be…
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NewsSaturday Selections – November 14, 2020
Flash mob singing Handel’s Messiah (5-min) We’re going back ten years to one of the first flash mob performances, with a chorus of 100 surprising…
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NewsTwice a Sunday needs to happen!
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Nov 7, 2020
What cobras can teach us about incentives Prov. 27:14 teaches that good intentions are not enough. And yet many a government policy is implemented, not…
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NewsDutch mayor threatens church’s rented space over “conversion therapy”
Many churches around the world rent a space for their weekly worship services. But are rented spaces going to become a new front in persecution…
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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…