Author Archives: dayofrepentance

27 Jan
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MANDATED SPEECH PRECLUDES FREEDOM OF FAITH

  By James Wilson   California apparently gets the distinction between compelling and forbidding speech because she is doing both.  AB 775 and SB 1172 are subject to ongoing lawsuits – Praise God – in actions brought by Pacific Justice ...

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21 Jan
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A REFERENDUM FOR LIFE

  By James Wilson   California joins three states whose governments actively promote the death of their citizens.  Governor Jerry Brown signed ABxs15 – the legalized suicide law – stating he would not want to be left in prolonged agony.  ...

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15 Jan
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CHURCHES SUE OVER CALIFORNIA’S IMPERIOUS DECREE

  By James Wilson   It was a shockingly gross violation of the First Amendment when California’s Department of Managed Health Care ordered churches to pay for abortions wanted by their employees.  Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a civil liberties ...

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09 Jan
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TEXAS AND THE VICTIMS OF ABORTION WILL BE HEARD

  By James Wilson   The Supreme Court will take up the Texas law ordering abortion doctors and clinics to have admitting privileges in local hospitals before abortions can be legally performed.  Clinics are also required to qualify as outpatient ...

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03 Jan
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JANUARY IS SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE MONTH

  By James Wilson   January 22 is the anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision of the United States Supreme Court legalizing abortions under virtually all conditions; it occasions the greatest shedding of innocent blood in American history.  Although ...

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23 Dec
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CHRISTMAS — THE REALLY REAL ONE

  By James Wilson   My very favorite Christmas decoration is a kneeling Santa – red suit and all – at the manger holding Baby Jesus. My favorite thing to do in church on Christmas Eve is to invite Santa ...

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18 Dec
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PROPRIETY VERSUS PROTOCOL REDUX

  By James Wilson   Franklin Graham reports, “For seven years after almost every football game, Coach Joe Kennedy of Bremerton High School in Washington State had gone to the 50-yard line to bow his knee and pray.  This season ...

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13 Dec
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PROPRIETY VERSUS PROTOCOL — LEGALISM VERSUS LIFE

  By James Wilson   One morning some twenty-five years ago I was a young parish priest contemplating the fact a woman in my congregation had missed an appointment in my office.  Ordinary procedure would be to call her later, ...

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06 Dec
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TALL POPPY SYNDROME AND THE GREAT AWAKENING

  By James Wilson   Another of my favorite movies is the Robert Duvall classic, The Apostle.  Duvall modeled his character, “Sonny” Dewey, after his Pentecostal preacher Grandfather.  Sonny is not a good man by any stretch.  He has affairs ...

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01 Dec
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THE CLIMATE CHANGE SKY IS FALLING COURTESY OF NASA

  By James Wilson   Climate change alarmists got a bit of a shock the other day.  NASA issued a report on the Antarctic ice mass.  The purveyors of global warming – now re-named climate change to account for not ...

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