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Memorable quotes from Chesterton’s memorable book. OK, I confess. I have a copy of G. K. Chesterton’s 1908 classic Orthodoxy in my hands once again. It is never far from my side, and I revisit it regularly. I have often said that Chesterton is my all-time favourite author and Orthodoxy is my all-time favourite [...]

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) is one of my favourite writers, and his 1908 volume Orthodoxy is one of my favourite books. He was an English writer, apologist, poet, essayist, and journalist. He was extremely prolific, having penned some 80 books, 400 essays, and many short stories, [...]

Being ‘true to yourself’ is often the worst thing you can do. Often music can capture the way a culture thinks and feels. It can reflect both helpful and not-so-helpful things. For example, a popular song performed by various artists in 1967 and 1968 was “I’ve Gotta Be [...]

Militant transgenderism kills – literally. People have died because of this insanity, and many more have been injured for life. And it brings about death in so many other ways. The very notion of womanhood is dying. Childhood is dying. Biology is dying. Truth is dying. Freedom [...]

In this morning’s reading, I came upon a really encouraging passage, as I often do. 2 Kings 20:5 states: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you.” This comes from the familiar story of King Hezekiah. Below I [...]

Why are our leaders obsessed with pushing the drug plague down our throats? Wow, this is just plain scary. Here are four recent headlines taken from one online newspaper in one city: the Herald Sun in Melbourne, Australia. They tell us all we need to know about life in Dictator Dan’s [...]

Some of you might be wondering if I am starting to lose it. ‘Praising disbelief? I thought you were a champion of belief and faith!’ Well, I certainly do stress the vital importance of a strong faith and solid belief. But that does not mean [...]

Focus Prayer and Fasting for the USA: 30 April–4 May 2023 Intention To ready His people to share the good news. Scripture “And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end [...]

Yes, the Christian can have great joy amidst suffering. The Christian faith is a paradoxical faith. We all know many of these paradoxes: we get new life out of death; we only obtain glory via the cross; we fully become ourselves when we deny ourselves; [...]

None of us are anywhere close to perfection, yet God still chooses to use us. Here is a wonder of wonders: God in his matchless mercy and grace takes hardened sinners, saves them, and uses them for his purposes. But what is really incredible is the [...]

What to make of the Carlson/Fox divorce. CNN let go of long-standing leftist host Don Lemon today. That was news. But a massively bigger bit of news involves how Fox News let go of Tucker Carlson today. The most popular host on Fox and a consistent ratings [...]

God is doing far more than what we are aware of. Why do you do what you do? If you are a Christian you should be doing ‘all things for the glory of God’ as Paul put it in 1 Corinthians 10:31. That should be [...]

Like so many others, I was part of two major counter-cultures in my youth. From around the age of 15 to 18 I was heavily involved in the 60s counter-culture with its rebellion, rock music, drugs, new left politics, and all the rest. But when [...]

When megachurches are publicly critiqued, sometimes it is well-deserved. It is a general truth that if believers are fed a diet of faulty, questionable or incorrect teaching, this may very well show up in how they live. Just as orthodoxy (good teaching) is needed for orthopraxis (good [...]

Is the West copying Communist China’s surveillance state? The overwhelming majority of the 264 articles I have written on Covid and the big state overreactions of the past few years had to do with how very easily and quickly our governments were able to take over almost every aspect [...]

We must take a stand against this pernicious social ideology. The trans activism we have been witnessing for the past decade or so is not just a bit of social adjustment, but is a wholesale revolution. It is an all-out war on absolutely everything, including women, children, biology, sanity, and reality [...]

This is a helpful antidote to so much of what ails us. The other day I penned a piece noting two radically different lifestyles. I noted that we can judge a culture by some of its more popular television programs, including hit reality TV shows. [...]

Anyone who has read the account of Lewis’ conversion in Surprised By Joy will know that the penultimate chapter is titled “Checkmate”. There he discusses some of the final steps that led him to abandon his atheism and move through from theism to Christianity. If, by some [...]

Where does one begin in writing up such a remarkable Christian? His impact has been monumental, and he has left an indelible legacy for generations to come. As Thomas Howard wrote, “We all have the same difficulty here: how to tap into some shape the [...]

As the West drowns in useless and hopeless woke leadership, our future is looking really bleak. There are various ways cultures can crumble and nations can decline. When the people become overwhelmed by their own sin and selfishness, things will not long last. That of course [...]