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Italian researchers create 3D image of Christ crucified using the Shroud of Turin

Italian researchers create 3D image of Christ crucified using the Shroud of Turin

March 31, 2018 467 1

“This statue is the three-dimensional representation in actual size of the Man of the Shroud, created following the precise measurements taken from the cloth in which the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion,” explains Giulio Fanti, teacher of...

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91% of RottenTomatoes readers like new movie 'Paul, Apostle of Christ' — but critics? 35%

91% of RottenTomatoes readers like new movie ‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’ — but critics? 35%

March 26, 2018 374 Like

The Apostle Paul, writes Anglican scholar N.T. Wright in his new biography of the most famous and widely discussed convert to Christianity,  might dispute the suggestion that he himself changed the world; Jesus, he would have said, had already done that. But what...

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Proof of Isaiah existence? A newly-discovered clay seal may provide documented evidence

Proof of Isaiah existence? A newly-discovered clay seal may provide documented evidence

March 5, 2018 229 Like

The prophet Isaiah is said to have used his wisdom to help King Hezekiah protect the Kingdom of Judah from an Assyrian invasion. VIDEO: Background on the clay seal ‘Isaiah Bulla’ discovered by archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar Experts have now...

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Jacoby: How the Mayflower Compact, a 1620 Fiscal/SoCon bargain, sewed the seeds of American prosperity

Jacoby: How the Mayflower Compact, a 1620 Fiscal/SoCon bargain, sewed the seeds of American prosperity

November 24, 2017 387 1

Driven far off course by gales and rough seas as they crossed the Atlantic in the fall of 1620, the Mayflower’s 102 passengers made landfall at a spot much farther north than they had planned. They anchored at the tip...

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The Godly heritage rooted within the real story of Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims

The Godly heritage rooted within the real story of Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims

November 23, 2017 428 Like

Most kids in public schools are no longer being taught what a rich godly heritage this nation has. God and prayer have been thrown out of their schools, and with it the knowledge that early settlers made covenant with God...

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Federer: Even the Pilgrims would have told you that democracy and Islam cannot co-exist

Federer: Even the Pilgrims would have told you that democracy and Islam cannot co-exist

November 22, 2017 433 Like

On Nov. 21, 1620 (NS), the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact and began their Plymouth Colony. Five years later, in 1625, the Pilgrims filled two ships with dried fish and beaver skins and sent them back to England to trade...

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Steve Green's spectacularly beautiful eight-story Museum of the Bible opens to the public

Steve Green’s spectacularly beautiful eight-story Museum of the Bible opens to the public

November 21, 2017 605 2

Every museum has its controversies, but few topics are more filled with potential pitfalls than the Bible and its history. The Museum of the Bible, which opened to the public Nov. 18, embraces those controversies, creating a multimedia space that...

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Major General Bradey: Ken Burn's Vietnam documentary is 'beyond shameful'

Major General Bradey: Ken Burn’s Vietnam documentary is ‘beyond shameful’

November 21, 2017 406 Like

Editor’s note: Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady is a recipient of the United States military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. He is former president of the Medal of Honor Society. Needless to say, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “documentary,” “The...

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Huge portion of Jerusalem's famous Western Wall uncovered to reveal a Roman theatre

Huge portion of Jerusalem’s famous Western Wall uncovered to reveal a Roman theatre

October 25, 2017 491 1

Archaeologists are one step closer to solving the riddle of what took place in Jerusalem following the destruction of the city by Romans in 70 CE. Israel Antiquity Authority archaeologists announced Monday that for the past two years they have...

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Molina: When 'sterilizing defectives' was fashionable table-side conversation in American homes

Molina: When ‘sterilizing defectives’ was fashionable table-side conversation in American homes

October 25, 2017 273 Like

In his chilling new book, Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, scholar Steve Ross chronicles how Hitler and American Nazis planned to take over the United States, using Los Angeles as their stronghold....

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  • Raymond Strom They try their hardest to deny the Creator. But He just keeps springing up when we look at cosmology, especially the origins and current state of the Earth. In fact, so many "just right" things...

    Beale: Nat Geo documentary on earth inadvertantly presents a powerful case for creation ·  April 16, 2018

  • Raymond Strom Christians in the Middle East are being wiped out and off the map as we speak. So who is speaking for them? It's time President Putin stepped up to the plate, like the man I think he could be, and...

    Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders unite in opposition to Trump’s call to bomb Syria ·  April 16, 2018

  • Raymond Strom Zuckerberg lied, pure and simple, and he has now had to back-peddle as fast as he can by taking a "soft" approach at the hearing. "Facebook acknowledged sending the message, but said its contents...

    Ted Cruz puts Zuckerberg in the hot seat for Facebook’s censorship of conservatives ·  April 16, 2018

  • Raymond Strom Timing is everything. Notley and crew have missed the timing every time, not just occasionally. The time to shut up and listen was for NDP coming out of the gate, but instead they attacked virtually...

    Byfield: The sudden silence of Alberta’s controversial Education minister ·  April 16, 2018

  • Raymond Strom Proofs are more than just difficult. Sometimes, they are impossible. For you to prove that I exist, for example, is pretty much impossible, let alone God. I point to one attempt at a VERY simple...

    11-year-old boy genius is on a mission to scientifically prove God’s existence ·  April 3, 2018

  • Raymond Strom One of the most compelling speeches given on the Ten Commandments was given by journalist Ted Koppel. His take, in a nutshell, was that the Ten Commandments were not the Ten Suggestions, as most...

    Interesting survey on how the Ten Commandments are viewed today compares Yanks to Brits ·  April 3, 2018

  • Raymond Strom I am not sure where churches, either Catholic or Protestant are willing to "draw the line." It seems we have all been subjected to increasing pressure to conform to a liberal/socialist/communist...

    de Souza: Trudeau’s ploy to play Caiphas has failed. Christians reject his 30 pieces of silver ·  April 3, 2018

  • vinco999 On behalf of Al Romanchuk, 81: As a life-long atheist I must admire the spirit, determination, grit and elan of this young lad who want to PROVE to the world that God does, in fact, exist. I have a...

    11-year-old boy genius is on a mission to scientifically prove God’s existence ·  March 26, 2018

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