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A Holiday Movie For The Whole Family
A Holiday Movie For The Whole Family
By Bill Dunn
During this hectic holiday season, many people like to relax by watching their favorite Christmas movies and videos. There are countless options: the BB gun “You’ll shoot your eye out!” movie. The timeless “A Charlie Brown Christmas” TV special, with that great jazz soundtrack and the poignant scene where Linus recites from Luke’s Gospel.
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Is There REALLY a Santa Claus? Absolutely! No Doubt About It!
Is There REALLY a Santa Claus? Absolutely! No Doubt About It!
By Larry Peterson
Every year I put this out because it is proof that Santa Claus is real and loves children the world over and brings them gifts every Christmas Eve. How can I be so sure he is real? Well, the letter below proves it, even if it was written 117 years ago.
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That Santa Thing
That Santa Thing
By Loretta Myler
When I was a kid, going to see Santa was a Really Big Deal. He appeared in the short space of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas and could only be found at the mall. There always seemed to be a line and the wait made it all the more special. Then there was that polaroid picture with Santa. As I grew older I dreamed of sharing this experience with my own children.
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Suicide Is Not Painless
Suicide Is Not Painless
By Sarah Aten
The world watched and waited with bated breath as Brittany Maynard bravely took her own life. The world cheered her 'death with dignity' act. Then some of us caught on to what we were cheering for. Suicide.
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The Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth!
The Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth!
By Jason Izolt, M.Ed., M.A.T.
As I watched the St. Louis County prosecutor discuss the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown and the subsequent rioting that occurred, one movie quote stuck in my head, “The truth? You can’t handle the truth!”
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The War on Children
The War on Children
By Dennis McIntyre
56 million. Think about that number. If you had 56 million dollars, I bet your life would be a lot less stressful. If you had 56 million followers on Twitter or Facebook, I am sure you would be very proud as people would find you very interesting. I think in general, if people had 56 million of anything they would be relatively happy.
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Are Christians Obsessed With Vanity?
Are Christians Obsessed With Vanity?
By Bill Dunn
The Bible clearly teaches that vanity is a sin. St. Paul wrote to the Philippians, “Do nothing out of selfishness or vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves” (Phil 2:3). In our modern culture, vanity is a massive industry, or rather, multiple massive industries.
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Advent: A Special Season
Advent: A Special Season
By Bill Dunn
It is early December, which means we have entered a special and festive and joyful season. We are once again in the season of … Advent. Advent?! Who pays any attention to Advent anymore? Our entire American culture has been going bonkers for the Christmas season since about 2 p.m. on Thanksgiving afternoon
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Weary Souls Rejoice!
Weary Souls Rejoice!
By Elizabeth Tichvon
Wherever we turn these days, Christmas music plays, and for some of us this year, the words to the traditional carols we’ve come to know by heart have suddenly taken on new meaning. Old, familiar jingles about Christ’s birth now seem to resound with significance, bursting with the presence of His Gospel!
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Atheist Billboard Is Myth-Guided
Atheist Billboard Is Myth-Guided
By Bill Dunn
The American Atheists organization sponsors billboards every Christmas season. One of their favorite billboards depicts a Nativity scene, with the silhouettes of Mary and Joseph kneeling in prayer next to the manger which holds the baby Jesus. A bright star shines overhead. And off to the side, three distinguished men riding camels are headed toward the Holy Family to pay homage.
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The Catholic Church: The Enemy of Secular Virtue
The Catholic Church: The Enemy of Secular Virtue
By Larry Peterson
The United States of America is the only nation in history to have used the Judeo-Christian Principle as the lynchpin for the nation's development and growth. So, what happened? How did this principle seemingly get tossed into the dumpster of the outdated and irrelevant?
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Mother of Five, Sentenced to be Hanged, Pleads, "Please do not abandon Me."
Mother of Five, Sentenced to be Hanged, Pleads, "Please do not abandon Me."
By Larry Peterson
Back on October 22, I wrote a blog about a wife and mother of five kids who lives in Pakistan and has been sentenced to death by hanging for the crime of "blasphemy". That's right; BLASPHEMY. And how does one commit such a heinous act in Pakistan? Asia Bibi drank some water that was only supposed to be for Muslims to drink. She is a Catholic/Christian and is therefore considered "unclean".
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Dumb Down Lincoln
Dumb Down Lincoln
By George Galloway
This month we celebrate the 151st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. All the accolades were written last year and I don’t mean to expound upon them; but only to offer a warning: the Common Core initiatives adopted by our schools, even Catholic schools
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The Dirty Secret of Romance Novels
The Dirty Secret of Romance Novels
By Anabelle Hazard
“Do you have a trashy book?” the girl next door wanted to know. I was in college and the dorm was a vast collection of paperback novels traded, exchanged or borrowed between girlfriends, especially when classes were called off due to a storm.“A what?” I asked.“A romance novel,” she said.
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Time to Pause, Take a Breath, and Give Thanks to HIM
Time to Pause, Take a Breath, and Give Thanks to HIM
By Larry Peterson
The simplicity of the Thanksgiving Holiday captured my spirit decades ago. This is the one day of the year where we, as Americans, just stop everything and take a breath from the year gone by to say THANK YOU to God.
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Roe v. Wade Created Schizophrenic Nation
Roe v. Wade Created Schizophrenic Nation
By Bill Dunn
A few years ago a 25-year-old Stamford, CT, woman was charged with murdering her newborn son by stabbing him with a kitchen utensil minutes after he was born. The woman was held on $1 million bond.
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We Christians are the Most Persecuted People on the Planet
We Christians are the Most Persecuted People on the Planet
By Larry Peterson
The persecution of our brother and sister Catholic/Christians continues unabated all over the world. In the Middle East, North Africa and Asia Minor, thousands upon thousands of our brothers and sisters in faith have been summarily tortured, raped, beheaded, hanged, burned, shot and even buried alive simply because they love Jesus Christ.
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