I’ve officially been banned from setting foot in Russia. Last month, I discovered I was number 44 on the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ latest list of banished Americans. Like more than 1,200 other Americans, I now stand accused of having a hand in the “promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime… Continue reading The Trouble with Russian Blacklisting
The Forgiveness of Sins Part 2
Editor’s note: This article is part 16 of a series, “The Kingdom of Grace.” Part 15 can be found here. Baptism not only washes away personal sins, but also forgives original sin. It forgives original sin both in adults who are baptized and “in tiny infants who have not yet committed personal sin” (CCC 405).… Continue reading The Forgiveness of Sins Part 2
San Francisco Shop Owners Threaten To Stop Paying Taxes Unless City Tackles Crime, Homelessness
Business owners in San Francisco’s Castro district have absolutely had it with the city’s inaction over burglaries, vandalism, and violent homeless people camping on the sidewalks in front of storefronts and residences. As the American Thinker‘s Olivia Murray notes: San Francisco has an established reputation as a capital for fringe culture and leftism, much of… Continue reading San Francisco Shop Owners Threaten To Stop Paying Taxes Unless City Tackles Crime, Homelessness
Testing Ellen Gould White (Seventh-Day Adventist Prophetess)
Podcast: Download MYS230: Seventh-day Adventist founder Ellen White reported receiving more than 2,000 visions from God and that her writings were divinely inspired. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask whether Ellen was a genuine prophetess and if her visions were really from God. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email |… Continue reading Testing Ellen Gould White (Seventh-Day Adventist Prophetess)
Another Path to Intelligence
Explore It turns out there are many ways of “doing” intelligence, and this is evident even in the apes and monkeys who perch close to us on the evolutionary tree. This awareness takes on a whole new character when we think about those non-human intelligences which are very different to us. Because there are other… Continue reading Another Path to Intelligence
Does It Really Matter Who Owns Twitter?
Unless you live in a cave, you know that Elon Musk paid $44 Billion to buy Twitter and then take it from a public company to a private one. There has been more than a great deal of concern about the Twitter platform and the future of the company itself. On November 22,… Continue reading Does It Really Matter Who Owns Twitter?
The Law of Gift – SpiritualDirection.com
“Man cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself.” So said Vatican II, in words that John Paul II often repeated. Many call this principle the “Law of Gift.” But what is “a sincere gift of self,” and how is it actually possible? I’ve been re-reading John Paul II’s Theology of the… Continue reading The Law of Gift – SpiritualDirection.com
Chang: China Is Weaponizing Chinese Worldwide To Support The CCP
Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, To make matters worse, the Chinese state has been open about its hostility to the United States. Among other things, in May 2019 People’s Daily, the Party’s self-described “mouthpiece” and therefore most authoritative publication in China, declared a “people’s war” on America. Many of those “different social systems”—especially… Continue reading Chang: China Is Weaponizing Chinese Worldwide To Support The CCP
Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident (Socorro, New Mexico; Aliens?)
Podcast: Download MYS231: In 1964, when Officer Lonnie Zamora heard an explosion outside Soccoro, NM, what he found was an egg-shaped craft that took off into the sky. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what the police officer saw that day and why this is one of the most intriguing UFO cases of the 1960s.… Continue reading Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident (Socorro, New Mexico; Aliens?)
Two Distinguished Scientists on How to Rescue Humanity
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie…”—Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well Our Earth has existed for 45 million centuries; and humans for a few thousand. But this century is the first when our species is so numerous—and so demanding of energy and natural resources—that we risk collectively despoiling our planet. It’s surely an ethical… Continue reading Two Distinguished Scientists on How to Rescue Humanity