Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, reviewing a recent book on the Branch Davidians, calls on the Seventh-day Adventist Church to “acknowledge some responsibility on the part of their tradition for the developments” that led to the Waco conflagration. One matter that impressed me particularly as an evangelical reading Newport is his insistence that…
Five years ago I documented the plagiarism of antisemitic sources by apologist Robert Sungenis. Since then, several men who worked for him at that time and since (Michael Forrest, Jacob Michael, Ben Douglass), and who once defended him, have left his organization and are making their own criticisms of his anti-Jewish writings, building upon what…
Bill Donohue. What a job he has. To get paid looking for anti-Catholicism. To have to read student newspaper opinion pieces in the quest. “Penelope” is writing a sex column for the Ohio State Lantern–a paper that is rather tardy in getting on the student-sex-columnist bandwagon. In her introductory piece, she describes the kinds of…
John Allen asks, “Why hasn’t Catholicism had a more positive effect in Latin America?” The most frequent explanation I heard boils down to this: For most of the 500 years since the arrival of Columbus, Catholicism in Latin America often has been skin-deep. People were baptized into the faith, married and buried in it, but…
Jason’s first.
Michelle Malkin shows us how freedom dies. It is strangled by the fearful, who interpret acts of piety and prayer and devotion as threat, subversion, and terrorism. As a child, I heard graphic apocalyptic narratives of an America turned upside down, where, in the name of freedom and faith, a faithful remnant would be persecuted…
Tompaul has links, and comments, on a new SDA statement on Islam.
Tompaul Wheeler: Happy employees means happy customers.
I’ve said little about the much rumored, speculated, and bally-hooed Motu Proprio that will allegedly free the Tridentine Mass and, if some rumors are to be believed, inaugurate the eschaton. But this from CWN leads to a discussion on that page that I must draw attention to. DV: Remember that even the very traditional-minded young…
Pax et bonum 