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Almost Like Competing for the Olympics?

> Hollywood actor-director Mel Gibson has been asked to recreate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the streets of Sydney if the city is selected to host a major Catholic gathering in 2008, a newspaper reported Saturday. > Gibson's staging of the Stations of the Cross, a

Fascinating Undercover Work

A reporter for the Sunday Times infiltrated the Muslim group, Saviour Sect, and spent two months there as a recruit. Interesting stuff. Link [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1724541,00.html]. Excerpts: > The reporter witnessed one of the sect's leading figures, Sheikh Omar Brooks,

Who Put the Hashish in Our Drinking Water?

> The July 7 terrorist bombings in London drew considerable public attention and raised fears of another attack in the United States, but these concerns do not translate into less favorable opinions of either Muslim-Americans or Islam. And compared with 2003, fewer now say that Islam is more likely

Something for Sunday Morning

> The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. Thomas Merton

Terrorist Land Contracts

> By many interpretations, Koranic law forbids the payment or receipt of interest on the theory it creates a culture of debt slavery, which begets other evils. > But when Soliaman and Metzger moved to Canton earlier this year, they found a new way to finance their house that didn&

Intelligent Design Defense

David Limbaugh points out the strengths of intelligent design theories. Link [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20050805.shtml]. Excerpt: > Many of ID's cynical detractors patronizingly frame this entire debate in terms of a struggle between faith and science. Intelligent Design, they say, is but a thinly

Defusing Da Vinci?

A PR firm is preparing to make Da Vinci acceptable to Christians: > Columbia Studios, which is making The Da Vinci Code, clearly feels that it cannot count on divine protection. It has called on the services of Grace Hill Media to help to prepare the groundwork for the film,

We Missed This

Further evidence that Islam is using our open society against us: > When Ramzi Mohammed, one of the failed bombers in the second wave of attacks on London, was surrounded by representatives of the decadent, infidel West, he didn't shriek, "Allahu Akbar!" and throw himself at

A Different Type of Red State?

The Good News in China: > Chinese are embracing Christianity in a social revolution that is spreading through town and countryside to the point where Christians already may outnumber members of the Communist Party of China. > Visits to villages in backward rural provinces or to urban churches in Beijing,

We've Been Waiting for This Momentous Decision!

> Mom-to-be Britney Spears says she'll raise her unborn child to follow the mystical Kabbalah faith. Link [http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/HotGossip/0,,2-1343-1344_1747742,00.html] .