Michael Brown

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  Apr 18, 2021

  The sword of ‘fear sells’ cuts both ways

  Have you seen the Project Veritas, undercover video footage exposing CNN’s extreme anti-Trump animus (see here and here)? Have you seen the candid comments about their intentional misrepresentations of both Trump (negatively) and Biden (positively)? Have you heard the unashamed admission that “fear sells”?

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  Apr 15, 2021

  Why has John Piper’s son become a Bible-bashing Tik-Tok star?

  Yet, for many of us, it was even more shocking to learn that Abraham Piper, son of the influential pastor John Piper, had become an internet sensation, best known for his videos mocking his former evangelical beliefs.

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  Apr 14, 2021

  Bad news in Supreme Court’s ruling on behalf of religious liberty

  It was good to see the Supreme Court rule yet again in favor of religious liberty in the latest California case to reach the nation’s highest court. Yet the fact that the ruling was only 5-4, not to mention some of the reasoning in the dissenting opinion, gives real cause for concern.

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  Apr 13, 2021

  Why can’t a parent marry their adult child?

  On April 5, 2007, Time Magazine asked the question, “Should Incest Be Legal?” Three years later, when Columbia University professor David Epstein was arrested for a three-year, consensual affair with his adult daughter, his attorney noted, “It’s OK for homosexuals to do whatever they want in their own home. How is this so different? We have to figure out why some behavior is tolerated and some is not.”

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  Apr 12, 2021

  The Biden admin, the worst case scenario, and how we should respond

  Joe Biden has been President of the United States for less than three months, but already, the fears of many conservatives are being realized. On many different fronts, things are going in a very wrong and dangerous direction. The question is: What can we do about it? How do we respond?

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  Apr 9, 2021

  Some thoughts on African Americans, Major League Baseball, and cultural assumptions

  More than 10 years ago, I was speaking with an African American pastor in New York City, talking about our respective burdens. He said to me, “You’re trying to get prayer back in the schools. I’m trying to get education back in the schools.”

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  Apr 8, 2021

  Debating an evangelical turned atheist, Muslim apologist, and more

  On Wednesday (April 7), I’m scheduled to do four more debates, one with a gay pastor on Jesus and LGBTQ+ people, one with a transgender pastor on affirming trans identities, one with a progressive Christian on abortion, and one with a questioning Christian on divine healing.

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  Apr 6, 2021

  A bipartisan proposal for voter integrity and photo ID’s

  Former NBA star and now sports commentator Charles Barkley recently opined, “. . . I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other, so they can keep their grasp [on] money and power.”

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  Apr 5, 2021

  Obama the oppressor

  Welcome, my friend, to 2021, where even Barack Obama is an oppressor and where people like actress Sharon Stone are speaking out against cancel culture and woke America. (To quote her directly, cancel culture is “the stupidest thing I have ever seen.”)

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  Apr 3, 2021

  How death of 20th century rabbi helps case of resurrection of Jesus

  To give the relevant background, in 1994, a leading rabbi, one of the most influential Jews of the 20th century, died at the age of 92. His name was Menachem Mendel Schneerson and he was known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe.