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News17 Alberta babies survived an abortion and were left to die
Richard Dur, the Executive Director of Prolife Alberta, writing in The Western Standard, shared this grim statistic: “Seventeen babies were born alive in Alberta following…
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In a NutshellTidbits – July 2026
How he learned he needed to preach Mark 2:28 Some years ago, on an early Sunday morning, a young Dutch pastor faced a quandary. A…
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PoliticsAlberta separatism: is it wrong to go?
I have deep roots in Alberta, having lived there for the first 30+ years of my life. I was also heavily involved in politics through…
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NewsOntario’s “conservative” gov’t opposes bill that would have banned gambling ads
Ontario is awash in new gamblers. As ARPA Canada reported earlier this year: “A recent study found that since iGaming Ontario was introduced, total monthly…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 11, 2026
Expose what they don’t know When it comes to any sort of discussion or debate, we don’t always have to do the heavy lifting. Especially…
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EntertainmentCan I watch a movie during my screen-fast?
…and other FAQs answered ***** 1. Can I still do the screen-fast if my work requires I be on a computer? Some didn’t participate in…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 4, 2026
Lady Pastrix says we need a “Third Testament” If you have liberal Christian family or friends, this is worth sharing. They need to understand that…
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DramaI Can Only Imagine 2
Drama / Biographical 2026 / 110 minutes Rating: 9/10 This is… wonderful. In the original, MercyMe singer Bart Millard shared the true story of how…
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Entertainment“What can I do anyways?”
35 screen-alternative ideas ***** You can’t beat something with nothing (as Eph. 4:28, Matt. 12:30, and Matt. 12:43-45 make clear). That means if you want…
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DramaA Great Awakening
Drama 2026 / 129 minutes Rating: 8/10 If you like watching movies worth talking about afterwards, you need to go see A Great Awakening –…
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AnimatedThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Animated / Family 2026 / 97 minutes Rating: 6/10 What they say about sequels never being as good as the original bears out here. Plumbers…
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Book ReviewsThe Plot Chickens
by Mary Jane and Herm Auch 2010 / 32 pages Henrietta the chicken can read and she wants to write. And though she can’t talk,…
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Book ReviewsThe Little Ships: the Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II
by Louise Borden illustrated by Michael Foreman 1997 / 32 pages In May of 1940, half a million British and French soldiers were trapped in…
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Book ReviewsA triune tale of diminutive swine
2012 / 42 pages by John Branyan What if the Three Little Pigs was retold in Shakespearean English? And what if the third pig, just…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 27, 2026
Envy is a sin. Wealth isn’t. If you could make everyone twice as wealthy, would you do it? This is an odd fellow, making a…
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Book ReviewsThe girl who never made mistakes
by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein 2011 / 30 pages Beatrice, “The Girl Who Never Makes Mistakes,” doesn’t want to go skating with her friends,…
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Book ReviewsMr. Pusskins: A Love Story
by Sam Lloyd 2006 / 32 pages One of my favorite teachers was an English professor who would point out how the works of all…
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Book ReviewsDogger
by Shirley Hughes 1977 / 32 pages There are a lot of beautifully drawn children’s books, but not nearly as many that tell a beautiful,…
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MagazineThe July/August 2026 issue
The 2026 “Log out. Look up.” 10-day screenfast is here, and we’re doing this together again! Find all the details inside this issue, including how…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 20, 2026
Calvin vs Arminius: the predestination rock battle Though they never met in real life, what if John Calvin and Jacob Arminius would have gone head…
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Adult non-fictionDarwin’s Sandcastle
Evolution’s Failure in the Light of Scripture and the Scientific Evidence by Gordon Wilson 2023 / 222 pages In the protective bubble of my Christian high…
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Recent ArticlesLess screens = more life
What we learned by stepping away from our phones for 10 days ***** We were hoping for 200 to sign up. Turns out a lot…
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Book ReviewsThe Peleg Chronicles
This one sat on my shelf for months because a glance at the back had me dismiss it. The series was touting what it didn’t…
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DramaHarlem Globetrotters
Drama 1951 / 77 minutes Rating: 7/10 This won’t appeal to most of Reformed Perspective‘s readers. But for the right audience, this will be an…
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Adult biographiesSeeking Allah, Finding Jesus
by Nabeel Qureshi 2014 / 384 pages RATING: Great Nabeel Qureshi (1983-2017) was a Pakistani-American who was raised as a devout follower of the peaceful…
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InternetIs AI helping you, or dumbing you down? Yes.
3 questions to help us use AI better. ***** The Preacher declares in Ecclesiastes 1:9 that “there is nothing new under the sun.” He was…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 13, 2026
Brandon Lake’s That’s Who I Praise Here’s a whole bunch of people having a whole bunch of fun praising God! I, Smartphone Nearly 80 years ago…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2026
Done before the first down Notre Dame’s famed football coach Knute Rockne wasn’t above employing psychology to give his team an edge. A legend is…
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Articles – BooksDon’t. Just. Read.
Encouraging reading is like encouraging eating, or drinking… or YouTube short-watching. Should our kids shovel in just anything that’s served up in front of them?…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 30, 2026
When John MacArthur visited a philosophy class In this clip John MacArthur starts off sounding quite arrogant – he says he everything clearly. but he…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 23, 2026
“Bury the workmen” by Covie, featuring Lance Thompson A group, new to me, singing about no matter what the world might try, “the work will…
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Book ReviewsPercy Jackson pushes homosexuality now too
My first involved interaction with the Greek myths was in university, as a required classics course. But the professor wasn’t all that interested in the…
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DramaMr. Smith Goes to Washington
Comedy / Drama 1939 / 130 min Rating: 9/10 Imagine if a director made a movie lauding Martin Luther’s Reformation, and then had the chutzpah…
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DramaAnastasia
Drama / Mystery 1956 / 105 min Rating: 7/10 In 1918 Communist revolutionaries murdered the Czar and his family, and for years afterwards rumors persisted…
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In a NutshellTidbits – May 2026
On logic Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson once went on a camping trip. Some hours after they lay down for the night…
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Book ReviewsNobody knows how to make a pencil
What is a pencil worth? It’s a simple question, about a simple product, and it highlights just how complicated our economy is, and how very…
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DocumentaryThe Homeschool Awakening
Documentary 2022 / 95 minutes Rating: 8/10 A comic popped up in my social media feed last month, that perfectly summed up this documentary. It…
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Adult fictionWar in the Wasteland
by Douglas Bond 273 pages / 2016 RATING: Gift “Second Lieutenant C.S. Lewis in the trenches of WWI” – if that doesn’t grab you, I…
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Book ReviewsPrincess Navina visits Malvolia
Libertarian James Payne is using storybooks to teach teens why big government can be a big problem ***** The most important of topics aren’t always…
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Book ReviewsInnocent Heroes: Stories of animals in the First World War
by Sigmund Brouwer 2017 / 186 pages RATING: Gift Animals had a way bigger role in WWI than you probably ever realized. Sigmund Brouwer’s fantastic…
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NewsTeachers lead the way in adopting, and sometimes restraining, tech
The Spring issue of Redeemer University’s Resound magazine featured an article about Dr. Katie Day Good, a Christian professor who has been researching the history…
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ContestsYour Turn 2026 – the top 25!
RP’s 2026 Your Turn contest has come to a close, and it was a doozy – so many great entries displaying all sorts of talents….
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NewsVote the 2026 Your Turn contest fan favorite
Voting for the 2026 Your Turn contest fan favorite has concluded. Find the winner and links to all the contenders here.
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ContestsYour Turn: the video finalists
We had some fun and fabulous video entries, so be sure to check them all out. We start with five from the 18-and-under youth category,…
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ContestsYour Turn: the audio finalists
What follows are the very best of the audio submissions, starting with the two best 18-and-under youth submissions, followed by a trio of songs by…
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MagazineThe May/June 2026 issue
Our Your Turn contest had a fantastic result, with more than a hundred entries. This issue we’re featuring the six winners and 19 other contenders,…
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ContestsRP’s 2026 Summer Photo Contest: Let’s get real!
The fascination with AI media creation, be it pictures, videos, and music, has turned sour for many of us. AI images are increasingly felt to…
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AnimatedUp
Family 2009 / 96 min Rating: 9/10 Boy meets girl, they fall in love, get married, make plans for an adventurous trip, life gets in…
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AnimatedWall-E
Animated / Dystopian / Family 2008 / 98 min Rating: 9/10 Wall-E is a small robot with a big job – he has to tidy…
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DocumentaryTruth Rising
Documentary 2025 / 127 min RATING: 8/10 83-year-old Christian author and apologist Os Guinness has assembled quite the cast for his new free-to-see documentary Truth…
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FamilyIvanhoe
Drama / Adventure 1952 / 107 minutes Rating: 8/10 If you love the story of Robin Hood, this is the sequel (or maybe prequel) that…
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Apologetics 101Apologetics 101: Stay on message
Step 1. Figure out what you’re really trying to say Step 2. Don’t let anyone or anything distract you from saying it ***** Scott Klusendorf…
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AnimatedChristmas Carol: the movie
Animated 2001 / 81 minutes Rating: 7/10 Dickens’ classic tale gets a child-friendly brush up, with a couple of cute mice companions added to the…
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DramaMr. Deeds Goes to Town
Drama/Romance 115 min / 1936 Rating: 8/10 Frank Capra is best known for his 1946 hit It’s a Wonderful Life. But a decade earlier he…
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DramaThe Man in the White Suit
Drama / Conspiracy / Comedy 1951 / 85 minutes RATING: 8/10 Planned obsolescence – it’s why you have to replace your 5-year-old laptop even though…
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FamilyThe Forge
Family / Christian drama 2024 / 125 minutes Rating: 7/10 Isaiah is a high school graduate, unemployed, still living with his mom, and spending his…
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Book ReviewsThe barber who wanted to pray
by R.C. Sproul 2012 / 33 pages Rating: GREAT R.C. Sproul has written a half dozen picture books to date, all of them great instructional…
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DocumentaryThe Long Goodbye: The Kara Tippetts Story
Documentary 2019 / 88 minutes Rating: 10/10 “I feel like I’m a little girl at a party whose Dad is asking her to leave early,…
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Recent Articles#3 – The unknown Commandment
“You shall not take the Name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His Name…
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Movie lists280+ movies Christians can love
Great minds think alike, and the same month I was first compiling this article two of those great minds belonged to a missionary in Brazil…
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Apologetics 101“Am I A Chinese Woman?” How questions can defend the Truth
It was a political science class in my first year in university, with a hundred-some students spread out around the large auditorium. When the professor…
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Book ReviewsPiet Prins’ Wambu trilogy
Wambu: the Chieftain’s Son Wambu: In the Valley of Death Wambu: Journey to Manhood by Piet Prins 2025 / each 350-ish pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Cannibals,…
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Book excerptsA passage from “The Hiding Place” I can’t manage to read out loud…
Corrie Ten Boom’s autobiographical The Hiding Place is best known for its account of her war time experiences. But one of the many powerful sections in the…
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NewsParents disrobe to make their point
In what seems to be a bit of a trend, parents have gone to school board meetings and, while presenting to the board, proceeded to…
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Culture ClashesJonathan & David and the difference between brave & crazy
The divide between brave and crazy isn’t always easy to see. God wants us to be brave –how many times did He encourage Joshua to…
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Articles – Movies12 free must-see docs for Christian families
Documentaries aren’t your thing? Then you haven’t seen these. We’ve got brilliant scholars and scientists sharing, in just a line or two, all their study,…
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Recent ArticlesWhat does fleeing sin look like?
Despite endless attempts to do so, fleeing sin can’t be done halfheartedly – that only sets the stage for failure. A tepid turning away is…
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Book ReviewsJames Herriot’s Treasury for Children
by James Herriot 260 pages / 1992 & 2104 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT James Herriot is best known for a series of semi-autobiographical books he wrote about…
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Book ReviewsBruno the Bear
by W.G. Van de Hulst 47 pages / 1978 & 2014 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Little Rosie is sick so Mother takes her off to bed. But…
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PoliticsWhat if everything was about God?
It struck me, just recently, that I’ve been regularly promising to praise God’s Name “among the nations.” This pledge, to talk about God outside of…
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InternetScreen-fast strictness – how tough is tough enough?
The screen-fast sign-up form had a space for “My listed exceptions” where people could list the important but limited screen-usage that their life and job…
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Internet
Less screens = more life
What we learned by stepping away from our phones for 10 days ***** We were hoping for 200 to sign up. Turns out a lot…
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NewsCan you track all the ways you’re taxed?
Each year the Fraser Institute observes a “Tax Freedom Day” – this year it happened on June 8 – that tracks Canadians’ total tax burden…
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Book ReviewsAkimbo and the Lions
by Alexander McCall Smith 1992 / 66 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Alexander McCall Smith is best known as the author of the The No. 1 Ladies’…
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Book lists50 “Great Books”
What are the “Great Books”? There is no one list, but the term is meant to describe a compilation of classics from Western Literature. Some…
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Entertainment
“What can I do anyways?”
35 screen-alternative ideas ***** You can’t beat something with nothing (as Eph. 4:28, Matt. 12:30, and Matt. 12:43-45 make clear). That means if you want…
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Pro-life – EuthanasiaOntario shows why euthanasia “safeguards” can’t work
A lengthy article in the Winter 2025 edition of The New Atlantis, titled “A Pattern of Noncompliance,” shows how Ontario isn’t strictly enforcing its euthanasia…
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AssortedOur family’s trip to the Ark
Ken Ham’s creationist organization Answers in Genesis has built a life-size replica of Noah’s Ark in the State of Kentucky. These Christians are proudly leading…
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EconomicsLet’s not be the squeaky wheel
Fewer people are using VIA Rail, more trains are behind schedule, and the Crown corporation continues to bleed money by the millions: that’s what Canada’s…
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AssortedHow to write
…for Reformed Perspective ***** Everyone has at least one article in them – I’m convinced that’s true. It doesn’t matter who I’m talking to, they…
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EconomicsTariffs are terrible economics: why Canada shouldn’t hit back
Free trade – free of barriers and restrictions – has, traditionally, been pretty exclusive to the Right side of the political spectrum. But now, with…
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EvangelismIt’s necessary: use words!
I hadn’t expected to meet a witch on the bus, what with their alternative form of transportation. Yet there she was, not a wart to…
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AssortedHow to be happier
Keep long lists, and short accounts ***** As I pad down the hallway to my home office, sometimes I’ll look down and remember that the…
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NewsTrump says what few dare about transgenderism madness
A Donald Trump campaign video made almost a year ago resurfaced after he secured his second term as American president. In Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle…
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AnimatedThe Corrie ten Boom Story
Animated / Biography / Drama 2013 / 34 minutes Rating: 7/10 What’s an appropriate age to expose our children to the truth about Nazis, concentration…
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Book ReviewsMarley’s Ghost
by Charles Dickens adapted by Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, and Shannon Wheeler illustrated by Gideon Kendall 2017 / 129 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift This is a…
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Dying WellCremation: why and why not
Three things got me thinking about cremation. One was a phone call from someone asking me if I would like an information package about funerals….
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Apologetics 101The theology of dirty jokes
In Miracles, C.S. Lewis makes the intriguing argument that it takes a theistic worldview to explain the existence of dirty jokes. the Christian knows that we…
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Movie lists11 free films for your study group
I was asked if I had any recommendations for free online films that might be good material for a study group. I appreciated the question…
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AssortedLove is…
Love is a mostly misunderstood word – it’s mistaken for sex, for sentimentality, for some sort of chemical thing that just happens, or doesn’t, and…
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Movie ReviewsThe Richard Wumbrand Story
Animated / Family 30 minutes / 2008 Rating: 6/10 I knew of Richard Wurmbrand as the man who founded Voice of the Martyrs, an advocacy…
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Book ReviewsFever year: the killer flu of 1918
by Don Brown 2019 / 96 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift In the Spring of 1918, even as the First World War was winding down, a more deadly…
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Adult biographiesGospel Patrons: people whose generosity changed the world
by John Rinehart 2013 / 170 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Are you a giant? Church history is full of such people. William Tyndale translated the Bible…
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DocumentaryThe Pursuit
Documentary 77 minutes / 2019 RATING: 7/10 “From 1970 until today the percentage of people living at starvation’s door has decreased by 80%. Two billion…
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AssortedToo certain by half: standing firm doesn’t mean dismissing all debate
As a young man I spent years trying to decipher the stony response I got when people found out my church denomination. I finally discovered there…
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Apologetics 101If the unborn are not our equals…
In the West we believe all people should be treated equally, no matter their age, race, religion, etc. But why is that? Why should we…
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Drama2081: Everyone will finally be equal
Drama 2009 / 25 minutes RATING: 8/10 “The year is 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law…
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AnimatedJungle Beat – fun for the kids that will have the adults laughing too
Family / Animated 750+ min RATING: 10/10 I’m always on the hunt for films or shows my kids will enjoy that I’ll enjoy too. There…
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Assorted“Yes, Virginia, there was a Santa Claus”
In 1897, The Sun newspaper was asked a doozy of a question. Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wanted to know: “is there a Santa Claus?” The little…
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HumorSay what? Insights from the “Devil’s Dictionary”
Ambrose Bierce (1842- circa 1914) was an American satirist best known for his Devil’s Dictionary. In it he sought to “improve” on Noah Webster’s famous…