The Royal Commission investigating institutional response to child abuse in the Australian Catholic Church has released a report detailing the statistics of the systemic abuse of children by clergy and the numbers are shocking. Seven percent of Australian Catholic priests…

“I think maybe God has allowed Donald Trump to win this election to protect this nation for the next few years by giving maybe an opportunity to have some good judges.” Franklin Graham, Baptist evangelist, President and CEO of the…

“Over a century ago, the United States of America went through a divisive and bloody Civil War that separated the people of this nation bone from marrow.” While that war was fought over slavery, there were many other issues involved….

“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.” Henry George, (1839-1897) American political economist. Source: The Land Question, 1881. Source Reference Henry George Quote

Did you know that your cell phone can be confiscated at an airport by Border Protection and downloaded to their computers? That’s right. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, that means they can access whatever is on your phone, all your…

“There is no inherent misdirection in holding unorthodox views. Indeed, the autonomous individual, free from compulsive conformance and unquestioned assumptions, is likely to be unorthodox… They stimulate the climate of controversy without which political democracy becomes an empty formalism.” Snell…

Catholics and Lutherans have made yet another step toward ecumenical commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. They have published a joint “Common Prayer,” booklet which provides a template for an ecumenical service, including prayers, appropriate hymns…

“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.” Sir Leslie Stephen, (1832-1904), literary essayist, author. Source: The…

For the first time since the Reformation, the Evangelical Church in Germany, which represents the vast majority of Protestants in that country, has invited Pope Francis to visit Germany to commemorate of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The…

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882). Source: Essays, 1841. Source Reference Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

For all the upheaval and conflict caused by their liberal agendas, churches that have gone liberal in the biblical interpretation are losing members and dwindling away. These are often mainline Protestant churches, and they are in trouble. A 2015 report…

“Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense – the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled;…