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Helping Young People Navigate the Cultural Minefield
The Rise of Gender Fluidity and the Need for Truth
At my son’s large public high school it is not uncommon to see kids in various states of “gender fluidity,” but not simply in the sense of feminine boys and tomboy girls as I saw back in my own public high school in the 1980s. No, these kids are either formally “transitioning” or experimenting with opposite-sex alter-egos, both of which have become trendy and faddish.
As parents, we are often lulled by a misguided compassion that ke
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Jun 18th 2024
Why Do Catholics Ask Mary and the Saints to Pray for Us?
A saint is one who is holy. In most languages, the two terms are synonymous (sanctusin Latin,santoin Spanish, etc.). The New Testament refers to all living Christians as saints. That is so because the Spirit sanctifies every Christian at baptism in Christ’s blood, becoming sanctified after yielding his body to righteousness, by abstaining from unchastity and sin, fulfilling God’s call to be holy and blameless.So every Christian is a saint, due to his relationship with Christ, yet typically
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Jun 4th 2024
Should We Expect a “Rapture” at Any Moment?
If the news we watch every day, and the social media we follow is true, the end times must be just around the corner, right?What does Scripture say?Faced with such a dire time of tribulation, some Christians have wondered whether they will have to live through it. The historic answer, for both Catholics and Protestants, is that we will. Jesus warned us we would have to face persecution (John 15:20). However, in the nineteenth century,dispensationalists began teaching that Christians will no
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Apr 30th 2024