A former climate modeller for the Government’s Australian Greenhouse Office explains why climate change hysteria is unfounded.  Here are some choice snippets: It turns out the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has over-estimated future global warming by as much as 10 times, he says. (more…) Read more

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Today “diversity” is a god-word. That’s the new term for a word or term that immediately inspires agreement.  Even if one does not believe in God, there are certain words for certain principles that all agree on and thus are treated like a god before which one must bow. “Diversity” is one of those. Another is “inclusion.” Both of these are god-words in the academic world, and indeed in much of our culture. But Christians must ask if diversity is... Read more

What is the point of all the details in Solomon’s Temple in the Old Testament?  Such as the cherubim in 1 Chronicles 3 whose wings stretch from wall to wall in the Holy of Holies?  And the pomegranates and chains that grace the tops (capitals) of the pillars that stand there? For that matter, what’s the point of all the details about worship in the Pentateuch–details that (it is sometimes alleged) could have no relevance to “worship in spirit and in... Read more

Despite all the evident joy and anticipated pronouncements coming during Pope Francis’s visit to this hemisphere, it is a worrisome day for orthodox Christians.  Francis never met with Catholic dissidents in Cuba, and professed not to know that many had been detained so that they could not see him.  Now we have news from Raymond Ibrahim, the Egyptian expert on Christian persecution in the world today, that Obama favors Muslims and discriminates against Christians among the millions of refugees from... Read more

We have all been told that the Kingdom of God was at the center of Jesus’ preaching. But what if that Kingdom was not simply hidden in the hearts of men and women, but was also envisioned by Jesus to be an earthly reality in the future, with territorial Israel at its center? That would change the way we understand the prophecies of a future Kingdom in the Old Testament, and the numerous discussions of the Kingdom in the New... Read more

Mark Tooley, the President of the Institute for Religion and Democracy, provides what seems to me to be the most balanced assessment of how we should think about Kim Davis–the courageous county clerk who was jailed for refusing to violate her conscience.  Here are some of his thoughts: (more…) Read more

Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living and Holy Dying is a classic of Anglican spirituality.  Taylor was a seventeenth-century divine (1613-67) who managed to flourish and indeed thrive under both Anglo-Catholic Archbishop William Laud and Puritan Oliver Cromwell.  Known for the beauty of his prose style and the depth of his spiritual theology, here are some of his prescriptions for using time toward a holy life. (more…) Read more

Patrick Moore, former leader of Greenpeace, writes in the Wall Street Journal Friday about President Obama’s visit to Glacier Bay.  Moore says: 1.  The retreat of the glacier there is nothing new.  It started around 1750, and has ebbed and flowed ever since.  In 1900 the Bay was almost ice-free!  So the ebbing started long before human emissions of greenhouse gases.  These fluctuations were caused by climate change, but the changes had nothing to do with human activity.  (more…) Read more

Is God an egotist? Why does He repeatedly tell us to praise Him? Jonathan Edwards had his answer for this in The End for Which God Created the World: God’s glory and our joy.  God knows that a life of praise brings us into the joy of the Trinity. CS Lewis said something similar.  When the psalmists tell us to praise God they “were doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. . . . We... Read more