John Law is possibly the most important man in history you’ve never heard of. He’s also the sort of character you’d find implausible if you read about him in a novel. A gambler who killed a man in a duel in Bloomsbury Square then escaped from jail and fled Britain. A Scottish economist who helped …
Church of God Chaplains Commission 9/11 Ministry Presentation
As we come up on another anniversary of September 11, we present this, prepared for the Church of God Chaplains Commission: https://youtu.be/HINdOGSe68k This is a video version of the PowerPoint presentation first shown at the Church of God Chaplains Commission Honors Dinner and Awards Ceremony, Marriott Ball Room, Indianapolis, Indiana, 10 August 2002. This was …
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Dr. Alexander Vazakas: Early Greek-American Pentecostal, Philosopher, Linguist
Alexander Vazakas (1873-1965) began life in the Ottoman Empire, where his family suffered persecution on account of their evangelical faith. In 1902 he immigrated to America, where he became a linguist and philosopher. During the last years of his life, he served as a professor at Evangel College (now Evangel University) in Springfield, Missouri, and …
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The Inconvenient Truth About the Ukraine
...is shown in the map above. It's a map from the London Geographical Institute in 1920, showing the extent of the Ukraine in the time of the Russian Civil War. It's probably the outline of the independent Ukraine that the likes of Symon Petliura fought unsuccessfully for, a holdover (as the map shows) from Tsarist …
England will miss its Church when it’s gone
The Church of England is on its knees, and not in a good way. Before the pandemic, physical congregations were already sparse, and getting sparser: in 2019, estimates put the average Sunday service attendance at just 27 people. When Covid-19 reached these shores, the Anglican leadership responded by closing churches even for private prayer, and they’ve …
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OCP Pulls the Plug (Finally) on the Angel Moroni
OCP managed to get itself into trouble by using an image of the Mormon Angel Moroni on the cover of its missal: The image below is from the cover of a missal being published by Oregon Catholic Press: The cover depicts an angel blowing a trumpet — but not just any angel. It’s the Mormon …
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Who do the English think they are?
In the early 5th century the Roman legions abandoned Britain, and the sceptered isle fell off the pages of history. When it reemerges two centuries later Celtic Britain had become the seedbed for the nation-state of England. The Christian religion, newly-established on the island at the time, had given way once again to paganism. Brythonic …
US Christians increasingly departing from core truths of Christian worldview, survey finds
A new survey shows that the majority of Americans no longer believe that Jesus is the path to salvation and instead believe that being a good person is sufficient. As part of the ongoing release of the Arizona Christian University-based Cultural Research Center's American Worldview Inventory, the latest findings — exploring perceptions of sin and …
The Democrats’ Cry: Let’s turn the clock back twenty years
A salutary warning from a European perspective: We very much liked Tom McTague's article in the Atlantic, in which he makes the point that the golden age of western liberal capitalism was nothing of the kind. He compares the period from 1990 until about 2008 with the Roman empire just before decline set in. Both …
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When will we have a Covid-19 vaccine? — UnHerd
It’s the question on everyone’s mind. When will we have a vaccine for Covid-19? Back in March, pundits and experts were divided: some seemed confident that it would take over 18 months, others thought at least two years. Some predicted several years. Five months on, with over 165 vaccines in development, Dr Anthony Fauci, the… via …
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