Tim Allen’s New Santa Clause Series Proclaims Jesus’ Birth in Second Season







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Tim Allen’s New Santa Clause Series Proclaims Jesus’ Birth in Second Season

By: Zachary Mettler


Jesus Christ is again proclaimed as the true meaning of Christmas in the second season of The Santa Clauses.

The new series on Disney+ is based on The Santa Clause film trilogy that featured Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Krumholtz, Judge Reinhold and Martin Short.

The original The Santa Clause was released in 1994, followed by The Santa Clause 2 in 2002 and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause in 2006.

In the TV series, Allen and Mitchell reprise their roles as Mr. and Mrs. Clause from the original films. Season one of the series comprises six episodes; the first premiered on November 16, 2022. The first two episodes of season two, which contains another six episodes, premiered last week.

In the second episode of season two, one elf at the North Pole is tasked with debriefing Santa Claus on the origins of the Christmas holiday.

“What we know as Santa, all began with Saint Nicholas honoring the birth of Jesus,” the elf says, before a fast-paced Santa tells the elf to skip forward several centuries.


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Using ‘Madonna and Child’ Christmas Stamps a Beautiful Way to Evangelize




By: Paul Batura






Over 1.3 billion Christmas cards are expected to be mailed between Thanksgiving and the end of this year, a drop from 2 billion a few decades ago — but still a significant sum in an ever-expanding era of mass digital communication.

It might surprise you that the tradition of mailing cards at Christmas is traced back to 1843 and a British-born society man, Henry Cole.

Overwhelmed by all the Christmas letters he was receiving — a standard practice at the time — he conceived of the creation as a means by which to quickly acknowledge all his holiday mail that was piling up.

Then, as now, failing to respond was considered bad manners.

Many of us enjoy sending and receiving Christmas cards, an annual opportunity to share photos, letters and notes you can hold in your hand — and maybe even put on your refrigerator or tack up around a doorway.

Part of the charm of the card is receiving it in your mailbox, which is a welcome departure from the flyers, bills and other non-personal posts that come each day.

The card arrives courtesy of the United States Postal Service, which now charges 66 cents (it’s going up to 68 cents in 2024) to mail one ounce anywhere in the country.

To add some festivity to the envelope, senders can take advantage of two new “holiday-themed” stamp series being offered this year.







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Hundreds of Ongoing Drug Shortages Raise Questions for Regulators




By: Emily Washburn






Essential treatments for diabetes, ADHD and bacterial infections are among the 305 drugs in short supply this year, the American Society of Health-System Pharmaceuticals and Axios report — the most since 2014.

Drug shortages occur when there’s not enough of a medicine to treat everyone who needs it. According to the Manhattan Institute, these shortages can be caused by manufacturing problems, regulations and a lack of transparence.

Manufacturing Problems

Delays in making drugs’ active ingredients, creating and shipping doses, and other supply chain problems can ripple into drug shortages.

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of new or updated manufacturing processes can also decrease production of a drug.

Regulations

The government heavily regulates drug manufacturing practices and start-ups, making it difficult for drug manufacturers to respond to free-market incentives.

In a market with no regulations, rising drug prices would encourage businesses to make more drugs — they can earn more money by meeting customers’ needs.

Additionally, higher prices usually incentivize entrepreneurs seeking a piece of the drug profits to start new drug manufacturing businesses.







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‘Jesus’ Film Reaches 2,100 Languages — Looks to AI to Reach More




By: Jeff Johnston






Jesus, the 1979 film produced by Campus Crusade for Christ (now known as Cru), has now been translated into 2,100 languages.

The evangelistic ministry recently announced plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to add even more languages and dialects to the film.

“The Cru ministry’s popular film, based on the Book of Luke, is set to be launched next year in the Waorani language which is spoken by approximately 3,000 indigenous people of Amazonian Ecuador,” reports CBN News.

Cru, founded by Bill Bright, began the Jesus Film Project in 1985 after the success of the original release and the growing demand for the film in more languages.

The organization says the Jesus film showings have “resulted in more than 633 million people worldwide making the decision to follow Christ.”

MovieWeb reports it is “the most watched and translated movie of all time,” with Cru estimating that over 10 billion different people will have seen the film by 2025.

The Washington Times explains that AI will be “deployed to speed up translations in the same way Bible translators are using the technology to advance their written work.”

Josh Newell, executive director of the Project, told the Times:

“The AI applications that we’re looking at when it comes to translation are in step with the Bible translation community organizations such as Wycliffe Bible Translators and others.”







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After Ohio Loss, Pro-Life Supporters Must Become Modern Day Prophets




By: Zachary Mettler






Pro-life supporters were left dismayed and disappointed with last Tuesday night’s election results in Ohio after the ballot measure Issue 1 passed by a wide margin.

Issue 1, which establishes a constitutional right to abortion, was overwhelmingly approved by Ohio voters 57% to 43%, with over 95% of the results reporting.

Elections have consequences. And the result of Tuesday’s election in Ohio will be tragic and evil.

The measure legalizes abortion up until birth, ends commonsense laws protecting women’s health during the abortion process, and removes parental notification requirements for minors seeking to obtain abortions.

It will also likely permit minors to access transgender medical interventions without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

Those facts become all the more stark when you see pictures of Issue 1 supporters who cheered, applauded, and cried joyfully as they watched the election results come in. They were applauding unlimited, unrestricted, unregulated abortion on demand. Images like that should shock the conscience. Pro-life supporters are not dismayed just because we lost. We’re saddened because of what that result will mean — the loss of 30,000 preborn babies in Ohio year after year.

Now, Ohio doesn’t stand alone as a loss for pro-life supporters trying to protect life at the ballot box. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022, pro-life supporters have lost seven of seven ballot measures on abortion — in blue, purple and red states alike.







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