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Wednesday March 1, 2007

Apologetics: James White examines James Cameron’s preface to “The Jesus Family Tomb.” Cameron says things like “At Christmas we celebrate the birth of a man who called to the spark of goodness that exists within all of us, a man who gave the world hope two thousand years ago.”

Theology: Phil Johnson discusses superficial understandings of relevance.

Politics: An interesting article about the proposed North American Union. I’m not sure how much of this is truth and how much is fiction.

Racism: This site has some interesting information about a book published by Zondervan that has some distasteful content (scroll to February 22).


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