by James Delingpole Sorry, conservatives: when President Obama describes climate change as the greatest threat we face, he’s exactly right. Terrorism can’t and won’t destroy our civilization, but global warming could and might. Paul Krugman, Nobel prizewinning economist, public intellectual; New York Times columnist The thing I love about Paul Krugman is that he’s such […]
“Americans for Natural Marriage are Confessors for the Faith”
According to Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Christians who stand for the ancient traditions of their faith are becoming “Confessors of the Faith,” in the mold of the mutilated and exiled St. Maximos (+662 AD). Kirill met with famous American Evangelical leader Franklin Graham last week, with whom he shared his admiration for […]
Science Does TOO Know When Life Begins
by Wesley J. Smith The buzz of obfuscation around “when life begins” has reached a crescendo of intensity in the wake of the Planned Parenthood imbroglio. Such huffing and puffing about the earliest embryo–when the dismember and harvest of PP happens well into pregnancy. But I think the crapola must be answered. An article in Wired […]
Why Western Nations Should Only Accept Christian Refugees
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. As refugees from the Middle East flood the West, a number of countries—including Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Cyprus, and Australia—are defying political correctness by wanting to accept Christian refugees only. While more “progressive” voices cry “racism,” the fact remains: there […]
Russia and the West Have Swapped Spiritual and Cultural Roles
by Iben Thranholm “Russians are returning to Christianity in a modern and contemporary context” “They are familiar with the bitter fruit of atheism and have no appetite for the bleak and barren wasteland it produced” “in Russia, Christianity is associated with being modern and progressive” “the young, the hip, the wise and the wealthy, express […]
How Plumbing Saved The World
How Plumbing (Not Vaccines) Eradicated Diseases Vaccines have done a great deal of good in the past, but plumbing, clean water, and sanitation are the real stars of saving the world from disease. by Joel Edwards Vaccines get all the glory, but most plumbers including the experts like the Toronto plumber will tell you that […]
Want Sustained Happiness? Get Religion
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Turns out that the secret to being sustainably happy is no secret. Note that this article was using Christianity as the ‘religion’; I wouldn’t necessarily think that it is universal across anything that passes for a religion today. A new study suggests that joining a religious group could do more for someone’s “sustained […]
Christians, Make Bricks Without Straw
by James Kushiner An Orthodox Layman, James Kushiner is the Executive Editor of Touchstone magazine, and Executive Director of The Fellowship of St. James. The Church has dealt with tyrannical dictators, ostracism, persecution, and arm chair quarterbacks for millenia. Mr. Kushiner’s article explains the battleground with clarity. Whether it be Babylon, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Islamic terrorism, the Ottoman Empire, […]
Orthodox Priest Brutally Gunned Down in Kiev
An Orthodox priest in Kiev is in a critical condition after being shot twice in the head Saturday night, Ukrainian and Russian media report. Roman Nikolaev, a priest in the Moscow Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, was shot outside his home in northern Kiev late on Saturday night, and is listed in critical condition. […]
Statement on Same-Sex “Marriage”
by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia When our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ instructed His Apostles to render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s (Matthew 22:21), He foretold of the future what was already true in the days in the Roman Empire: […]