Now it just amounts to a few feeble skirmishes, a couple of barmy Christians railing outside the shopping malls, while everybody else gets on with their daily worship at the shrines of the modern trinity: shopping, eating and drinking.
The Christmas war, in fact, is rapidly acquiring the status of historical curiosity. In a few years' time, we'll have to stage re-enactments, like those Civil War buffs who gather in soggy fields:
Read moreThese days, it is the secularists who seem to be most intent on pushing a proposed right never to be offended by confrontation with the Christian Gospel, Christian witness, or Christian speech and symbolism. This motivation lies behind the incessant effort to remove all symbols, representations, references, and images related to Christianity from the public square.
Read moreTHE APOSTLES' CREED video is a living link that takes us over centuries to the Early Church. It's a bond that unites today's believers with diverse cultures and traditions. It's a concise summary of Biblical faith taught to new believers in the Early Church prior to being baptized. Here you will find a two-hour abridged version of an upcoming twelve hour curriculum series by award-winning producer-director T.N.
Read moreThat secular-religious partnership has been so effective that statistics reveal a significant decline from an alarming 21 percent prevalence in 1991 to a far more comfortable rate of 6.7 percent in 2005, according to the World Health Organization and an AIDS-focused United Nations agency.
Read more"...In our culture, we haven't created the same hierarchy as has heterosexual culture. We know that love has many faces, and names, ages, places... We know that a 30-year relationship is not better, no better, than a nine-week, or nine-minute, fling - it's different, but not better. Both have value. We know that the instant intimacy involved in that perfect 20-minute [sic]...in Stanley Park can be a profoundly beautiful thing.
Read moreThe Virgin Birth
Three out of four adults (75%) said that they believe Jesus Christ was born to a virgin, Mary, as described in the gospel narratives. Of the six Bible stories examined in the survey, this story was the most widely accepted.
Read moreAs the founder and national director of Homosexuals Opposed to Pride Extremism, McKellar has been a tireless opponent of the gay agenda and on occasion has written against the killing of pre-born children and the disabled as well.
Read moreThe plaintiffs allege that Maclean's advocated, among other things, the notion that Islamic culture is incompatible with Canada's liberalized, Western civilization. They insist such a notion is untrue and, in effect, want opinions like that banned from publication.
Two separate panels, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Human Rights Commission, have agreed to hear the case. These bodies are empowered to hear and rule on cases of purported "hate speech."
Read moreA tabulation of church shootings, or those closely related to a church setting, was done by Gary Cass, chairman of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, and include 10 such attacks over the last four years, including Murray's two attacks.
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Read moreThe famous Beaux Arts style building was built and paid for by the Scouts, and turned over to the city with the understanding that the Scouts would be allowed to remain in it rent-free "in perpetuity."
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