Seventy years ago Victory in Europe Day was proclaimed. On May 8, 1945 the mass celebrations took place, just a day after the full surrender…
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In this present darkness we really do need each other: In the 1919 poem The Second Coming by Irish poet William Butler Yeats we find…
Prophetic insights from Muggeridge on the decay of cultures: When I penned a brief biographical piece on the great Malcolm Muggeridge two days ago, I…
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Some thoughts on dealing with differences while striving for unity: What an odd thing it is to be a Christian. We come to Christ in…
The great Walter Williams has just passed away: I just heard that the noted American economist Walter Williams has passed away at age 84. Along…
It is shocking how often we ignore crucial warnings, until it is too late: History is full of tragedies and catastrophes because of warnings that…
Yesterday I posted my first piece on the historic election victory of Donald Trump. In it I said that this election was all about who…
Exactly 75 years ago today Dutch citizens woke to the sounds of airplanes overhead, gunfire, and Nazi paratroopers landing in Amsterdam. This was the beginning…
Suppose you were a Christian pastor preparing your sermon for next Sunday in a less than peaceful and settled environment. Suppose you are a Christian…
“Lest we forget” was meant to remind us not to forget. But it seems that we have done exactly that – and in very quick…
Although I am not a Catholic, I admire many of them. And one of my favourite contemporary Catholic thinkers is William Kilpatrick. He has penned…
One does not need to be expert in history to know that Europe has had its fair share of wars. For far too many centuries…
Every person who names the name of Christ is part of the Resistance. We are resisting the world, the flesh and the devil, and we…
It really does not take much to spark a thought for a new article. This article took a split second to conceive. Elsewhere a kind…
Sixty-five years ago the world celebrated Victory in Europe Day. On May 8, 1945, the official surrender of Germany was accepted by the Allies, and…