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December 19, 2006

Why an Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers is Not an Honor
An Open Letter to Donald Cronkite

I see in the News from Hope College (December 2006) that you received "national recognition from the National Association of Biology Teachers." I nearly said "congratulations" but then I remembered writing a book on the subject of Secular Humanism (Mind Siege) and finding NABT to be a hardcore secular humanist organization not at all friendly to anything that smacks of…

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December 17, 2006

Handel’s Messiah

It was Beethoven (1824) who said of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) "Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived. I would bare my head and kneel at his grave." Christians can do no less listening to one of the greatest (if not "the" greatest) musical masterpieces of all time. Handel's "Messiah" was first performed in April 1742 at the Music…

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