By Jonathon Van Maren As most of you will already know from the photos of the entangled arms of Justin Trudeau, Enrique Pena Nieto, and Barack Obama, the US President is in Ottawa. And, as presidents sometimes do, he gave a little speech in Parliament. It must have been painful for the Tories listen to…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Along with many other Christians and conservatives, I am feeling quite celebratory after Great Britain voted to leave the European Union last night. As I said on Facebook, one of the loveliest things about the Brexit victory was the fact that all the right people were having a miserable night: The…
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Dr. Daniel K. Williams is a history professor and the author of “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade. He joins Jonathon to discuss the history of the pro-life movement in the United States.
By Jonathon Van Maren In my debates on a variety of social issues, there is one question that almost no secularist seems capable of answering with any degree of confidence: Where does our morality come from? One would think that this is an important question to have an answer to. I’ve watched university students struggle…
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By Jonathon Van Maren I don’t mean to sound like a broken record, but two news stories yesterday have again brought evidence of precisely what I laid out in two earlier articles. For one, some questioned whether the title of my column on the Edmonton Catholic school teacher currently being investigated for “anti-gay” comments was…
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By Jonathon Van Maren I waited for awhile to write anything about the tragic mass killings in Orlando because a naïve part of me genuinely thought that people I usually disagree with would finally see the obvious: that the bizarre partnership between the political left and a significant and specific strain of radical Islam was…
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By Jonathon Van Maren These culture updates are often alarming and I’m told by some of my readers that they are more suited to a Monday than a Friday. Today, for a change, I’ve decided to do a shorter culture update, and include some of the genuinely good news we’ve seen over the last week…
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By Jonathon Van Maren So it begins. A veteran teacher at an Edmonton Catholic school appears to be the victim of a vicious smear job. Albert Felicitas, who has been a teacher for 32 years and received what he called “glowing endorsements” from students in the past, has now been accused of making “anti-gay” comments…
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James Herriot, or to use his real name, Alf Wight, is one of the best-loved British authors of all time. Writing autobiographical stories of his days as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales, Herriot captured the hearts of people everywhere. His son Jim Wight worked with him for years, and wrote a memoir of his…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As another grandiose celebration of her ninetieth birthday approaches, the serene face of Queen Elizabeth II is again clogging news sites and social media feeds. All these years after her 1953 coronation, she still seems to be somehow above the fray. Her perpetual unflappability is even more impressive if one considers…
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