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Dawn Embraces One Of God's SaintsPlease enjoy this excerpt from Sunday Will Never Be The Same: A Rock And Roll Journalist Opens Her Ears To God.Maybe, in God’s plan, he permits people to ask saints for help. Why would he? I don’t know. And I don’t want to make a habit of it. But if good people are doing it and they say it gets results, I’ll try it just this once.Patrick said St. Francis de Sales is the patron of journalists. But he didn’t tell me anything else about the saint, and I didn’t quest …

Please enjoy this excerpt from Counterfeit Christs: Finding The Real Jesus Among The ImpostorsIt was a crisp morning at the University of New Mexico, where I was engaging in pro-life evangelism. At the time, the campus medical school was teaching students how to perform abortions, so the images of aborted children we displayed garnered a fairly hostile response from the campus population. One student’s response still sticks out in my mind.After angrily arguing with us in the morning he returned …

The Early Christians Provide Us With Some Real Eye-Openers A word from Jimmy Akin... I first began to be aware of the earliest Church Fathers before I was even Catholic. In fact, they were part of what led me to the Church. When I was twenty, I had a profound conversion to Christ, but because I grew up in a Protestant community, I knew very little about the Catholic faith. According to many of the sources I had available to me, the Catholic Church was a false churc …

What Was Hitler’s Religion?Adolf Hitler was one of the most evil figures of the 20th century. His ideology of war and racism led to millions of deaths.What was it that drove him to adopt the abominable policies he did? Did his views on religion play any role in this?There’s a startling lack of information on this subject in the public sphere—and much of what you hear is wrong.So let’s set the record straight.Ideologues Have IdeasI’ve looked into the question of Hitler’s religion for decades. I r …

If most intelligent people you know believed something, would you believe it?For many people who don’t believe God exists, this is one reason why: the smart people they know and respect, such as scientists and philosophers, are often atheists.For example, ninety-three percent of the members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the most elite scientific organizations in the United States, deny God’s existence. One study found that seventy-three percent of professional philosophers ar …