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Google is famous for catering their home page to that day's major holiday or event. Google's home page has celebrated other religious holidays while failing to celebrate Christian holidays in the past. Well, what's today's most noteworthy event? According to Google, it's labor leader Cesar Chavez's 86th Birthday.

“At this secret meeting with him, Obama practically begged him not to go on and speak any further,” Klein says. “This was after one of Obama’s best friends had sent an email to a member of the church saying that he was prepared to give the Rev. Wright $150,000 if he would shut up. The Rev. Wright told me that he has saved that email.” In the recorded interview, Wright says he basically could not afford to shut up for $150,000, Klein says. “Wright explained he had expenses that he had to pay,” Klein says. “He had a child and...

"Hate crimes" laws were defeated in Congress just a few months ago. Just a few weeks ago, Frank Wright of the National Religious Broadcasters Association warned, "We must be one in Christ to face the days ahead" because "hate crimes" laws would create untold new liability for Christians. Now a major Christian ministry has confirmed that such "hate crimes" laws already are setting limits on what it can broadcast. The issue is "hate crimes" laws in Canada, and they are affecting U.S. Christian ministries that broadcast into that nation. WND reported just a week ago on a Christian ministry based...

Three Books An Atheist's Defence of Christianity I seldom read book reviews, and would not have read the one entitled, "Suicide of the West," if it had been written by anyone other than Theodore Dalrymple and if someone I greatly admire had not suggested I do so. So I did. The opening paragraph explains exactly what the three books reviewed are about: "That Western Europe suffers from a state of general paralysis is a truth too universally acknowledged to require much reiteration. Slow growth and high unemployment; an aging and shrinking population; scientific and cultural irrelevance to the rest of...

I am sick tired of the left and Holly bashing Christians left and right. Maybe it's because we are not 15th century zealots.. or fly plane into buildings, or behead ppl. I wonder how the left and co. would treat a film about Islam (now those people kill to protect their religion on an every day basis.. anyone bad mouthing Mohammed is issued a death warrant. (how many moderate imahms do you think are off'ed because they dare question the literal text on the Quran?) Satanic Verses need say no more. The wahabi code.. now that would make a movie...

Why Is It Wrong for Christians to Predict When Christ Will Return to Earth? by Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon Biblical prophecy and eschatology are both fascinating and spiritually encouraging subjects, as any Christian who has studied them will testify. They are also difficult subjects to deal with responsibly because not all prophecy is equally clear. But if the Bible is clear on anything, it is that no one knows the specific time of Christ's return. Jesus Himself stated, "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority" (Acts...