Richard Dawkins’ response to the execution of Saddam Hussein is textbook liberalism. Dawkins is a British ethologist and evolutionary biologist, an outspoken atheist and humanist. As such, he sounds the normal leftist trump: Political scientists of the future, studying the processes by which unscrupulous leaders arise and take over national institutions, have now lost key [...]
Barbara Nicolosi is fast becoming one of my favorite voices in the arts community. She’s a former Roman Catholic nun turned Hollywood scriptwriter. Six years ago she founded Act One, a program to train screenwriters and Hollywood executives to produce quality films that connect with audiences of faith. In a recent interview with the Houston [...]
I’m still trying to decide who’s proving what. The following site was linked on Debunking Christianity, a blog run by ex-Christians “for the express purpose of debunking Evangelical Christianity” (their words). Why would I read — much less link to — a blatantly anti-Christian website? As I see it, if Christianity can’t pass scrutiny and [...]
Okay, so I’m one of those nerds — Top Tens and Best Ofs send me swooning. With 2006 withering, I’ve been perusing the fringes of listdom, brewing my own Best Of. Since we’ve got baby on the brain around here, let’s start with Baby Center’s Top 100 Baby Names of 2006. For boys, it’s Aiden [...]
Who needs Christmas gifts when you have a family like this? I’m constantly amazed — and shall be for all eternity — at God’s grace to me. A year-end update for anyone interested in (or befuddled by) the Duran clan. From left: Jon’s an EMT, working the night shift, on his way toward becoming a [...]
When asked what I write, I usually answer Christian fiction. I don’t particularly care for that term, nor its equivalents, inspirational fiction, religious fiction or faith-based fiction. The Waterboro Public Library offers this definition, which seems pretty standard: The term Christian fiction applies to those novels being published by evangelical Protestant Christian publishers like Bethany [...]
Mel Gibson’s new film, Apocalypto, is definitely not a family film — though a member of my family endured the savagery alongside me. The last time I walked out of a theater that stunned, it was after Saving Private Ryan. Absent, however, was the inspiration and gratitude Spielberg managed to evoke with his film. Much [...]
When debating evolutionists, the average Christian must concede a lot — mainly, reams of scientific info and terms. I can navigate my way through the Bible, but when it comes to Horizontal Gene Transfer, Epigenetic Inheritance or the Cambrian Explosion, I am clueless. Thank goodness for believing scientists. Wikipedia has a fascinating List of Christian [...]
