By Jonathon Van Maren Note: I’ve wanted to go to Turkey for years, and the opportunity simply never came up. Then, last fall, I got an email from YYZ Deals, which sends alerts of cheap tickets to international destinations: $370 CDN to Ankara, roundtrip. For any of you who want to do international travel but…
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By Jonathon Van Maren January 21, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – There’s a reason I wait a day or two when the media decides to bash pro-lifers: They are not good faith actors, and they desperately want to believe the sorts of stories that suit their narrative about the pro-life movement. I’ve seen abortion activists fake hate crimes on…
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By Jonathon Van Maren January 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – When it comes to the transgender movement, there is one thing you can always be assured of: there are more absurdities and flabbergasting demands to come. Last week, for example, The Sun reported that in the United Kingdom, biological males referring to themselves as transgender “women” are being offered…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As I noted in my column last week, the media firestorm in the Netherlands surrounding the Dutch version of the Nashville Statement, a document reaffirming traditional Christian beliefs on sexuality and marriage, was interesting for several reasons—not the least of which is the fact that so many people seemed stunned by…
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By Jonathon Van Maren One of the key signs of the growing divide between secular progressives and religious people in the United States is the fact that the media actually consider it to be a major news story when they discover that Christian institutions seek to abide by Christian principles. This time, it is the…
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By Jonathon Van Maren If I asked you to guess which country has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, you probably wouldn’t guess Pakistan, a largely-conservative Muslim country where abortion is legal in only a handful of circumstances (primarily danger to the mother’s health) and the vast majority of physicians refuse to…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As our society reorders itself around the tenets of the Sexual Revolution, witch hunts are becoming the norm. It is now considered news, for example, that a Catholic priest holds to Catholic doctrine on issues of sexuality, and major newspapers (in this case the Toronto Star) breathlessly cover this non-story with…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Like any young conservative who wants to become a writer someday, William F. Buckley was one of my heroes back when I attended university in Vancouver (where, incidentally, his wife Patricia hailed from). His resume was so impressive it was hard not to be awed: He founded the National Review, began…
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By Jonathon Van Maren With the near-universal acceptance of the premises of transgender ideology by the media, it is sometimes difficult to discern the truth of a story due to the Orwellian language used by the press to convey “news story.” Consider, for example, this recent headline in the Seattle Times: “Faith-based shelter fights to…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It seems as if I’m reporting this story every other day, but according to The Sun in the UK, another data set indicates that the number of children choosing to identify as transgender is spiking dramatically, with the UK Deed Poll Service noting that one child under the age of sixteen…
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