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The Welfare State and the Selfish Society (Prager University)

Does capitalism and the free market make you selfish? Dennis Prager answers this question and challenges what for many has become conventional wisdom. Capitalism teaches people to work hard. The...

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Obama Supports Planned Parenthood and Unrestricted Abortion

by Jennifer Hartline – Our current President has made his position crystal clear and has demonstrated time and time again that he will always defend Planned Parenthood; he will always defend...

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The Via Dolorosa by Jon McNaughton

by Seth Adam Smith – The Via Dolorosa features over 100 figures–men and women that have left their footprint on Christianity. The man in the middle represents the modern Christian…a man who must make a...

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Test of Fire: Election 2012, Christians Must Vote Their Values

This November will you vote the values that will stand the test of fire? Some things are more important than high gas prices or a faltering economy. They are life, marriage and freedom. This Coming...

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Remembering Chuck Colson: 1931-2012

Evangelical Christianity lost one of its most eloquent and influential voices today with the death of Charles W. “Chuck” Colson. The Prison Fellowship and Colson Center for Christian Worldview founder...

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The End of America? The HHS Mandate’s Threat to Freedom

The Obama’s Administration’s mandate requiring the Catholic Church to conform to government dictates on contraception and abortifacent drugs is more than a war on the Catholic Church argue Jennifer...

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Earning Happiness — The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise

The words “happiness” and “free enterprise” don’t usually appear in the same sentence. Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, explains that the two are intimately and profoundly...

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The Dependency Agenda

by Kevin D. Williamson – Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to “fight poverty” — in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that...

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Obama: Funding Planned Parenthood is Important for My Daughters

by Fr. Ben Johnson – President Barack Obama again invoked his daughters as reasons to support the abortion industry in a campaign stop in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday. “Mr. Romney wants to get rid of...

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The “Romney killed my wife” lies disintegrate

by John Hayward – The despicable ad put together by pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA has disintegrated into the most noxious cloud of lies, with astonishing speed.  Rarely have the waters of the...

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Government Entitlements Are Corrupting Us

by Nicholas Eberstadt – The American republic has endured for well over two centuries, but over the past 50 years, the apparatus of American governance has undergone a radical transformation. In some...

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The Left’s War on Profit

by John Hayward – A good deal of the Obama campaign is dedicated to the proposition that “profit” is evil. The quintessential Marxist formulation holds that capitalist profit is the theft of surplus...

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The Case for Marriage (Prager University)

by Dennis Prager – Is there case to be made for marriage, long the bedrock institution of civilized society? Or is it just another social antique, the creation of an outdated patriarchy and no longer...

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Freedom To Succeed by Thomas Peterffy

by Thomas Peterffy – I grew up in a socialist country, and I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement. The nation became poorer and poorer, and that’s...

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If Good and Evil Exist, God Must Exist (Prager University)

by Peter Kreeft- Is there such a thing as objective morality? If there is, does that suggest a moral law giver? Peter Kreeft, distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, takes on these...

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Conference on Poverty, St. Vlad’s Seminary, May 31-June 1, 2013

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life!” Conference presenters will be Jay Richards, author of Money, Greed, and God and Senior Fellow at the...

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The Church’s Fading Influence on American Culture

by Simon de Hundehutte – It seems people have misunderstood, as well as misrepresented, the church’s role and influence in “secular society.” The early Christians lived in the secular society of Rome,...

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For Democrats, Abortion is Their Religion

by Fr. Ben Johnson – Why would the radical Left increasingly use such religious language to defend the indefensible, the gruesome murder of the unborn? Because abortion is their religion. Its promoters...

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Trail Life USA: A Moral, Godly, and Safe Boy Scouts Alternative

by David Rose – It was Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 6, 2013. The huge hall was overflowing, the convention sold out. Over 1,200 attendees, with many spilling out into the foyer, eagerly awaited the...

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ObamaCare: Obama Lied, Our Health Coverage Died

by Neil Munro – President Barack Obama told his enthusiastic supporters Monday night that he never promised what video recordings show him promising at least 29 times. The videos show Obama promising...

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Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in the Orthodox Church

The joyousness which accompanies the performance of the Divine Liturgies of St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostom was regarded by the early Church as not suitable for the penitential season of...

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Holy Saturday – The Orthodox Celebration of Great and Holy Saturday

by Fr. Alexander Schmemann – Great and Holy Saturday is the day on which Christ reposed in the tomb. The Church calls this day the Blessed Sabbath. The great Moses mystically foreshadowed this day when...

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Christianity is One Great Miracle – The Grand Miracle by C.S. Lewis

by C.S. Lewis One is very often asked as present whether we could not have a Christianity stripped, or, as people who ask it say, “freed” from its miraculous elements, a Christianity with the...

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University Campuses: The Least Free Place in America

by Greg Lukianoff Once the vanguard of open debate and free speech, American universities and colleges have become a place where alternative thinking goes to die. Question: Which American...

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A New Dark Age: Planned Parenthood Sells Aborted Baby Organs

– Patrick J. Buchanan “If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.” Ivan Karamazov’s insight came to mind while watching the video of Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood describe, as she...

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Christians Are The World’s Most Persecuted Minority

by Shawn Schuster – For those Christians living in Muslim-majority countries, torture and death are an everyday occurrence, according to Ibrahim’s new research. “I’m not talking about ‘War on...

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Christian Pastors Must Stand for Truth, Righteousness, and Morality in the...

by Fr. Josiah Trenham – You’d be right to ask, I think, what’s a pastor doing at this conservative political conference. I certainly know some of my clerical colleagues are asking what I’m doing here....

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Fr. Michael Courey: Orthodox Church Must be More Inclusive, Welcome Same-Sex...

On March 12, 2016, as a featured speaker at the Christian Family Life and the Challenges of Faithfulness symposium organized and sponsored by Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount...

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Gay Iconoclasm: Holding the Line Against the Radical LGBT Agenda

by Fr. Josiah Trenham – So here is the essence of the conflict, my friends. It is the LGBT versus the JCIB: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. Gay propaganda throws such classical wisdom to...

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Idea of White Privilege is Absolutely Reprehensible

by Jordan Peterson – The idea of white privilege is absolutely reprehensible. And it’s not because white people aren’t privileged. We have all sorts of privileges. Most people have privileges of all...

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