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'Guns don't kill...transgender terrorists do'—the latest in culture war opportunism

The news has sent waves across America: A former pupil returned to their Nashville elementary school to gun down three children and three adults. What happened was horrific. As we discuss the terrible ordeal, no discussion should take away from this reality. What the shooter did was disgusting, and when

Putin's Russian sacrifice at the Chinese altar

It is no secret that both Russia and China have long sought to wrest US hegemony away from the West and provide an alternative locus of supreme power. However, the ill-advised war in Ukraine has done more damage to Russia's hard and soft power than anything else NATO

Putin is issued arrest warrant for war crimes

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, with a focus on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. This crime is one of 11 that constitute grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and that are applicable only

Answering Dan Barker’s Easter Challenge

With Easter not far away, I thought it would be instructional to examine the Easter story in some detail, and how the four Gospels seem to contradict one another on crucial details, and whether the different accounts can be harmonized. This situation inspired Dan Barker, a former evangelical Christian preacher,

UK pupils suspended for damaging Qu'ran

Four pupils have been suspended from a school in West Yorkshire, UK, for damaging a Muslim holy book. The incident took place last week at Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield in the north of England, although the Headteacher has claimed that there was "no malicious intent" concerning the

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