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Making of History? OR Unmaking of Our Society?

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It seems there isn’t a news cycle which goes by without someone “making history” these days. Everyone and everything is making history…

Por David E. Smith May 30, 2014

How Liberalism Violates All 10 Commandments

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One of my readers, we’ll call him Moses, is the publisher of a mainstream newspaper in California. He wrote me the other…

Por IFI Staff May 21, 2014

When the Foundations are Being Destroyed…

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David asked the question in Psalm 11:3, “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?”  All of us have to…

Por Kathy Valente May 21, 2014

The Blinkered Prophetess

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Like many conservatives, I have been able to enjoy the writing of Marilynne Robinson, even though she appears to be quite at…

Por IFI Staff May 14, 2014

A Wicked Orthodoxy

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[T]he latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)... reckons that global warming has latterly been occurring at the rate…

Por David E. Smith May 5, 2014

Poisoned Culture is Making Americans Sick and Directionless

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This item is a catch all of various factoids that have stacked up on my desk.  I am throwing them into one…

Por Micah Clark May 5, 2014

Unpreaching the Gospel

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A recent article in “World” Magazine titled “Still-silent shepherds” summarized the top reasons evangelical pastors give for not preaching against abortion. Among…

Por David E. Smith May 3, 2014

Necessary Gut-Check: Is Christianity Divisive?

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Select a passerby at random on a crowded city street and ask him to describe Christians and you are likely to hear…

Por David E. Smith May 2, 2014

Easter: In the Eyes of An Angel

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The Passion Week of Jesus Christ is the pinnacle of all history. Millions of words have been written about it, dozens of…

Por David E. Smith April 19, 2014

Moral Relativism and the Return to Eden: Satan’s Busted Playbook

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Moral relativism is the idea that there is no such thing as Good and Evil. Things which I consider to be good…

Por David E. Smith April 19, 2014

Where Is the Virtue?

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Our culture has become soft. We suppose that sex is too trivial to require virtue, yet we also believe it is so…

Por David E. Smith April 10, 2014

Fred Phelps and the Anti-Gospel of Hate — A Necessary Word

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Fred Phelps is dead. The fire-and-brimstone preacher, who for many years was pastor of the institution known as Westboro Baptist Church, died…

Por David E. Smith March 27, 2014