Creation of the physical universe

Cosmologists today include an inflationary period to explain our universe. So, God could very well have created every aspect of the universe in an “inflationary way.

Celebrate Musk, but don’t lose sight of Big Tech’s enduring problems

The story of Elon Musk’s acquisition, transformation and public rehabilitation of Twitter is nothing short of remarkable.

Apple cannot be a force for good in China

EDITOR ’S NO TE: Terence Jeffrey is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Erick Erickson. Iwrite this on a MacBook Pro running on a hotspot off my iPhone. I love Apple. In first grade, I got to work on an Apple II. By third grade, our school had an Apple IIe.

Exemplifying the spirit of giving

Before the Christmas holidays get into full swing, I would like to take a moment to thank Bret Cali and his team at the Bend General Store for their generosity in providing a free Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixin’s for our rural community.

God must have a special place reserved for Holocaust deniers

It is a central tenet of moral theology that there are gradations of sin. To argue that God views stealing a towel from a hotel and raping a child as moral equivalents renders God a moral fool.

‘Save the world’ is a racket; stop falling for it

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of colossally failed cryptocurrency platform FTX, is just the latest swindler to parlay grandiose aspirations into a scam that goes down in flames and takes other people’s money with it.

Wake up! Balenciaga is what’s coming

In case you missed it, fashion house Balenciaga created a furor last week with its ad campaign featuring toddler girls holding teddy bears sporting BDSM (bondage and sadomasochism) outfits.

The Left’s cynical ‘speech is violence’ ploy

The week before Thanksgiving, another evil mass shooter unleashed horror at a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and wounding another 25.

The question fools don’t ask

What would you think of a person who never asked the price of anything he or she bought? You would assume the person was inordinately wealthy. But if the person wasn’t, you would dismiss him as a fool, and you would certainly never ask this person for advice about how to spend your money.

Things to be thankful for

One of the worst aspects of an everenlarging government is that it begins to take on an outsized importance in our daily lives. The political parties and people who control them become more important than they should be.