Above:Â July 4, 1939 —————————————– Three score and seventeen years ago today, Lou Gehrig delivered the ‘Gettysburg Address of Baseball,’ perhaps the most famous speech in all the years of the game. Â It was one of the most moving moments in sports history. Â It was his Farewell Speech at Yankee Stadium. Â After 2,130 consecutive games […]
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   (…continued)  The Jews did as they were told to do way back in the days right after their time of slavery in Egypt.  At that time, they did not yet even have a land.  There was no land, no temple, no king, not anything yet.  All they had was the miracle of freedom won
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   Before sending Lewis and Clark out west on their famous expedition, President Jefferson prepared a list of scientific questions for them to investigate on their expedition.  Most were the kinds of questions you might expect, concerning things like geography, geology, plant and animal life, weather, and so forth.  But there was one very odd
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Painting above:Â Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521 19th century painting by Hermann Wislicenus —————————– From The One Year Christian History, by E. Michael and Sharon Rusten, pages 216-7, Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. Â Â Â During the early 1500s Europe was in a great state of flux. Â A revived interest in pre-Christian Greek
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Ruby Bridges, 1960 ——— Â Â Â Robert Coles, the distinguished child psychiatrist, went to New Orleans in the 1960s to help black children living with the trauma of trying to integrate their schools. Â Ruby Bridges was the first black child to help desegregate her public school in New Orleans. Â Every day Ruby would walk to
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Above: Chapel of St. Ananias, Damascus, Syria, an early  Christian house of worship (1st century) ————————————– Adapted from A Godward Life, by John Piper, pages 303-404, Multnomah Press, 1997.     About A.D. 133 Aristeides, a teacher of philosophy, presented a defense of Christianity to Emperor Hadrian.  From it we get a glimpse of what
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Although Western cultural elites deny it, non-Westerners know full well that the key to the West’s success over the centuries is Christianity.  Eric Metaxas writes, “It never ceases to amaze me how modern western secularists are doing all in their power to purge Christianity from public life.  As would say, ‘They’re sawing off the branch
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The best one-volume introduction to the Christian faith I’ve seen is What’s Christianity All About? by John Schwarz.  There is also a condensed version of this book titled Living Faith(containing approximately 25% of the complete content).  John has given me permission to reprint the entire text of Living Faith on this website.  A chapter a
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Painting above: Christ Healing the Ear of Malchus, James Tissot  (1836-1902) *************************** by Ryan Mauro, September 23, 2013, Front Page magazine    The cultural relativists on the Left and apologists for radical Islam like to blame the Crusades for almost everything.  “The Muslim extremists are only responding to the deeds of Christian extremists,” the
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   Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) was a German businessman in the 1930’s.  In many ways he was a most despicable man.  He did not like Adolph Hitler, but eagerly joined the Nazi party when he saw that it could be very good for business.  He was raised a Catholic, but never went to church unless
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