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Power Line – Why Don’t Christians Care?

In a number of places around the world, it is open season on Christians. We read of Christians burned out of their homes and slaughtered in Pakistan. Most recently, at least 500 Christians were murdered in Nigeria. The attackers in all cases are Muslims, inspired by [...]

Categories: War and Peace

As I understand it, the Book of Esther is one of only two books in the Hebrew Bible that does not mention God. It is the straightforward story of how Jews were threatened with genocide but were able to turn the tables and kill those who would kill them.

via Powerline. Happy Purim!

I read [...]

Categories: History

Der Spiegel – Christianity’s Modern-Day Martyrs

The rise of Islamic extremism is putting increasing pressure on Christians in Muslim countries, who are the victims of murder, violence and discrimination. Christians are now considered the most persecuted religious group around the world. Paradoxically, their greatest hope could come from moderate political Islam. By SPIEGEL staff.

One [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Dalai Lama tweets. Ahem, yer holiness.

Categories: People and Current Events

Slate – A Nation of Racist Dwarfs Kim Jong-il’s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. By Christopher Hitchens

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Touchstone – Byzantium Yet Fallen The Critical Lessons for Christians in the Long Shadow of 1453, by Paul J. Cella

Round about five and a half centuries ago, the Roman Empire was at last extinguished. By then the Empire was, of course, Greek, not Roman; Christian, not pagan; and no longer strong, but pitifully weak. [...]

Categories: History

From Tony Blair:

This isn’t about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception,” Mr. Blair said. “It’s a decision. And the decision I had to take was, given Saddam’s history, given his use of chemical weapons, given the over one million people whose deaths he had caused, given 10 years [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – Catholic ban on women priests ‘illegal under Harriet Harman equality bill’

The Roman Catholic ban on women entering the priesthood will become illegal under Harriet Harman’s controversial Equality Bill, according to Christian charity, CARE. A new report by the leading charity – backed by a legal opinion from a [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Now, nobody get mad at me, but this is funny:

No, Moslems don’t believe that Jesus was the messiah. Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – Simon Mayo on the move to Radio 2 and his new Telegraph column

From Radio 1’s top spot to an award-winning talk show on 5 live, Simon Mayo has had an eventful career. Now, at 51, he is back on the music track, headed for Radio 2’s ‘Drivetime’ and a column in [...]

Categories: Entertainment

I was this close to sending an email to Fox News when we cancelled our cable that the only thing that kept me subscribing to cable was his show, and please don’t take it personally, etc etc.

The Corner – KLo: This Is Beautiful

from Brit Hume, via Christianity Today: [...]

Categories: Business & Media

New Years Resolution #3 (I have others): Clear out my stupid Google Reader! rolls up sleeves

National Post – David Frum: U.S. looks for bombs instead of terrorists

The real culprit in the underwear bombing? It’s the U.S. embassy in Lagos, argues Thomas Lipscomb. According to the Department [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Telegraph – The Christmas donkey starts on the way home<br/> Truth, light, love – these are things that anyone, Christian or not, rejoices to find at home.

[F]or everyone finds sooner or later that we are none of us quite at home. Christmas is homely with the children, but the children grow up and [...]

Categories: History

So the Swiss have voted to ban minarets (incidentally, an interesting article here on how the vote was being led by Swiss women:

“If we give them a minaret, they’ll have us all wearing burqas,” said Julia Werner, a local housewife. “Before you know it, we’ll have sharia law and women being stoned to [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph Blogs – Damian Thompson: Does the devout Catholic Van Rompuy want to preside over a Holy Roman Empire?

The appointment of Herman Van Rompuy as “President of Europe” is a gift to conspiracy theorists who fear the re-emergence of a Europe dominated by Rome. The wellspring of the Belgian’s Eurofederalism, like that of [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs