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Learning From Young Atheists: What Turned Them Off Christianity
By   |   08.04.14
It’s something most Christian parents worry about: You send your kids off to college and when they come back, you find they’ve lost their faith. The prospect of this happening is why many parents nudge their kids towards Christian colleges,...
Finding Joy Amid World’s Chaos
By   |   08.04.14
“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.”  ~Matthew 24:6 I’m not quite ready, just yet, to put...
‘Pro-Choicers’ Are Backing Off of the Label. Why?
08.02.14
Pro-abortion advocates are “shunning” the “pro-choice” label according to the New York Times. Reporter Jackie Calmes’s piece, published on Tuesday, explains that the movement is shifting away from abortion policy...
Holy Family Church Takes a Stand
08.01.14
God bless Father Terry Keehan a living example of a true shepherd to his flock at Holy Family Catholic Church in Inverness. Father did that with his proper response to the music director of Holy Family.
Warning Goes Forth, Again, Over Ratifying UN Treaty
By   |   07.30.14
A U.S. Senate panel has advanced to the full senate a treaty that could pose a danger to parents and to pre-born babies.  After a contentious hearing this week, the Judiciary Committee advanced the United Nations Convention on the Rights...
What Does a Miscarriage Teach You About Abortion
By Richard M. Hartian   |   07.30.14
What does a miscarriage teach you? Well, a lot really. Much depends upon how you personally have chosen to view life - your world view. Family is deeply important to all of us, both those that believe in God and those that don’t.
Why I Don’t Use Contraception
07.28.14
I converted to Roman Catholicism almost a decade ago. At the time, nobody was talking about wars on women, so when I read about Catholic prohibitions on birth control, I naively supposed that most Catholic women actually followed the Church’s teachings on birth control. It’s right there in the Catechism, after all. Reading some books on the subject, I decided there was a lot of merit in this idea about the contraceptive-free life. My husband and I (both Catholic converts) gave it a go.
Miley Cyrus and the Moral Gag Reflex
By   |   07.28.14
Looking at culture, it’s tempting to give up in despair. As the dad of little girls, for example, when I see the relentless objectification of women by celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, I’m tempted to think that any attempt in what William Wilberforce called a “reformation of manners” is futile. It seems that instead, in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, we have to “define deviance down.”
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