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Written by Tony Blankley   

Friday, 26 December 2008

I recently read a book that deserves the widest possible readership: The Trouble with Textbooks - Distorting History and Religion, by Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra. I never have met or talked with either of these gentlemen, but I can’t say enough good things about this [...]

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.
Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there [...]

Christmas Special Edition
Vol. 08 No. 52
22 December 2008
PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE
Christ’s Mass 2008: Our Guiding Light
By Mark Alexander
THE FOUNDATION
“Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament and its best Security.” –Samuel Adams 
 
For my family, Christmas is much more than a day, a season or a collection of memories and rituals. Christmas is a lens through [...]

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The Christmas tradition of banning all Christmas traditions goes from strength to strength. The other day, a reader passed on the e-greeting card he’d received from a British client wishing him a “Happy Festive Period”. Ah, there’s a phrase to warm the heart. Here’s what I had to say on the subject four years ago [...]

For musicians, Christmas means Messiah. This is not a comment upon musicians� religiosity, but rather upon their finances. Messiah, Handel�s Messiah, is to America�s choral societies and orchestras what La Bohème is to its opera houses and Nutcracker to its ballets: the guaranteed full house that can bankroll a whole season of deficits. Between Thanksgiving [...]

This year I am involved in directing my children’s Christmas play again. This is the fourth time I have done it. I have no formal training in the dramatic arts. And personally, I could not act my way through a marketing survey interview. I just tell others what to do. I will leave the quality [...]

 Christmas celebrates not just the incredible love and peace of the almighty God, but also the amazing revelation of who he is. We worship him in spirit for the joy of his salvation, and we worship him in truth for the profound beauty of his name. We do not stir up our emotions in a [...]

Most radio stations play some type of Christmas music during the holiday season, but many of the songs have become so familiar to us that we no longer consider their content. In between the secular songs like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Up on a Housetop,” you may hear the strains of an old hymn [...]

What do you think of when you hear the word “Christmas”? Frantic shopping? Family traditions? A commemoration of the birth of Jesus? Or a combination of all these responses and more? If you’ve been living in the United States long, you probably find it difficult to focus on just one without the others. And if [...]