Burnley’s Pastor Mick – from dangerous drug dealer to lifesaver
Two weeks ago, millions of people watched Pastor Mick Fleming and Father Alex Frost on BBC News, feeding and clothing the poor in Burnley. Many were moved by their work, and since then they have received more than £250,000 in donations. But Mick’s life wasn’t always about love and care. …
France tries to tame Islam, we wish it good luck with that
Following the most recent series of brutal murders of innocent French men and women by Muslims, the French government has passed a new law to try and reduce the Muslim threat to public order and hence the French Republic. The new law requires that there shall be no intimidation of …
Why I believe in the Virgin Birth
Many modern people do not believe in the Virgin birth, viewing it merely as a scandalous cover-up of Mary’s obvious adultery, the start of the greatest hoax (the ministry and resurrection of Jesus Christ) ever perpetrated on humanity. I disagree. I believe that the Mary was indeed the virgin mother …
Intellectual serfdom takes hold in Norway
Norway has expanded its “hate speech” laws so that privately made “discriminatory remarks” against homosexuals or transgenders can land people in prison for a year. If such comments are made publicly, they are punishable by up to three years in prison. “The penal code states that those who are guilty …
Marriage, old men and young girls
When the elderly Mohammed married Aisha she was merely six years old and consummated the marriage when she was only nine, he set up a cultural institution within Islam that continues down to the present day. Child marriage is always an older man marrying a young girl. I find it …
Electing a president in a volcanic culture war
The US presidential election has illustrated more graphically than ever before that we are living beneath an erupting civilisational volcano. The flaming cultural lava is spreading well beyond America. We have to wonder whether we are now watching the steady asphyxiation in the west of both liberalism and democracy. Nowhere …
Ye shall judge them by their fruit
Recently President Macron of France said: ‘Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today’. He did so in response to three brutal murders of innocent French men and women, including a teacher and three Christians in a church. The teacher was beheaded by a Muslim …
Learning the Strategic Lessons of the Jihad in Nigeria
What is happening in Nigeria is a foretaste of what may happen in many other nations where the population of Muslims is on a par with the rest of the population. If current demographic trends continue, Western Europe will be in this situation in the second half of this century. …
The heart of Islam revealed by its actions and words
Jesus once said: “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good man out of the good treasure …
The Founding of Babylon the Great
In my lifetime (I am now 65) I have witnessed the transformation of my country, the UK, from being a Christian country, a country in which the laws of God and the example of Christ were respected, even if not always followed, to one in which every law of God …
