It turns out that the man who made that reportedly salacious movie about Mohammed, The Innocence of Muslims, that has set the Middle East on fire is NOT Sam Bacile, an Israeli-American with 200 Jewish investors, as he claimed. That was a fake identity for
As you may know, frozen woolly mammoths have been discovered in ice formations, more or less intact, since the 18th century. So why not clone some, bringing them back from extinction? A Russian university says scientists have discovered frozen woolly mammoth fragments that may contain
The U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed, along with three other Americans, when Islamists fired rocket grenadees at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Mobs were protesting an American-made movie ostensibly funded by Jewish militants entitled Innocence of Muslims, which depicts Mohammad
Bob Dylan has a new album, Tempest, and it sounds really, really good. From Washington Post music critic Chris Richards: For his 35th studio album, “Tempest,” Bob Dylan wanted to write religious songs and ended up hopping a freight train to the apocalypse. Couching images
The Democratic National Convention was full of angst about how “middle class” Americans are having such a hard time, how “the system is rigged against them” (as Elizabeth Warren put it), how the rich control everything, and other evocations of national misery. But if things
More from Sunday’s sermon, in which Pastor Douthwaite also picked up on the Epistle reading, James 2:1-10: What James said: I will show you my faith by my works does not mean that I will show you that I believe by what I do –
Christian conservatives and Republicans in general have been criticized for waging the so-called “culture wars,” making political issues out of abortion, gay marriage, and other divisive moral issues. But now it’s the Democrats who are raising those divisive issues. At the Republican National Convention, hardly
Chicago teachers are on strike, even though they are among the highest paid in the country and they were offered a 16% raise. But they don’t want to be held accountable for their effectiveness: For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked
That Iranian pastor who had been sentenced to death in Iran (we blogged about him here and here) has been freed after three years in prison: Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been released from prison in Iran, where he has been held for almost three years
We had an illuminating sermon from Pastor Douthwaite last Sunday on Mark 7:31-37, in which Jesus touches the ears and the tongue of the deaf mute and tells him “ephphata”; that is, “be opened.” Jesus’ miracles are not simply signs of who He is –
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