Harvard Scientist: Wonders of the Universe Point to a Creator







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Harvard Scientist: Wonders of the Universe Point to a Creator

By: Zachary Mettler

Have you ever gazed up into the stars at night, or stood and stared out at the ocean, knowing that the beauty you’re seeing is just a glimmer of a reflection of the Creator Himself?
According to Karin Oberg, professor of astronomy and director of undergraduate studies at Harvard University, the wonders of the universe point to the existence of God. At the recent Wonder Conference, held in Grapevine, Texas, Oberg said that many scientists present and past have been strong believers.

What we see in the universe “should draw us out of ourselves,” she said, “looking out not just towards the wonders themselves and towards the truths they reveal, but also towards the source of all truths and the ultimate Creator of all things.” Oberg pointed to the example of George Lemaitre, who first proposed the idea of Big Bang. He was also an Augustinian Friar.
“I can’t help but wonder if … the reason that he had the idea, instead of some of the other brilliant scientists that he was surrounded by, had something to do with his Catholicism. I mean, he already knew, by faith, that the universe had a beginning in time,” Oberg said.


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I Never Knew My Mother When She Was Young



By: Paul Batura




Most families have running jokes, memories and moments talked about and discussed repeatedly across the years. They can bond us and help elicit happy recollections of days gone by.
My mother, whose been gone since 2012, loved to bring up something I said when I was just ten years old. She said it always tickled her. We were at church, milling about and talking with the pastor and some friends. The subject of age came up, and I apparently blurted out, “I never knew my mother when she was young!”

At the time, my mom was fifty, which is actually my age now. You can do the math. That means she had me when she was forty. Back in 1982, a half-century ago seemed ancient to me. It was the Great Depression – and nine years before the start of World War II. Thinking of my mother’s childhood and era, I may have even thought of those days in black-and-white. I wasn’t trying to be witty or sarcastic. It was just a matter of fact. From the lips of a child, so to speak.
I thought of that story this morning after seeing that just yesterday, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual report concerning births in America for 2021. This particular edition, published under the banner of “National Vital Statistics Reports — Volume 72, Number 1,” paints the picture regarding not just the numbers of births, but also maternal demographic and health characteristics, medical and health care utilization, source of payment for the delivery, and even infant health characteristics.





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Christianity Isn’t a Western Faith



By: John Stonestreet




Last month, according to the Congolese military, a militant group attacked a Pentecostal church, killing at least 10 and wounding scores of others. Though incidents like this are hardly new, they rarely make the news. Many in the Western world simply don’t realize how prevalent Christianity and Christian persecution are outside of Europe and North America. Plus, the creeping influence of “the critical theory mood” leaves the impression that because Christianity has been so influential in Western history, Christians must always be villains and can never be victims.
This caricature of Christianity as a sort-of tribal faith of Westerners is flawed at the core. As Philip Jenkins argued in his book The Next Christendom, it took nearly a millennium and a half before the majority of Christians were Europeans. Even today, that is no longer the case. If we were true to the actual demographic realities, the “stereotypical” Christian would not be a white male but an African woman. In fact, from its inception, Christianity has always been a multiethnic, multilingual, and multicontinental faith.
In part to oppose these false stereotypes of the Christian faith, apologist Abdu Murray has written the helpful book More Than a White Man’s Religion: Why the Gospel Has Never Been Merely White, Male-Centered, or Just Another Religion. As the title indicates, Murray challenges the widely held idea that the Christianity to which he converted from Islam is just a tool for Western civilization, that it’s oppressive to women, or that it’s just a fabricated ideology determined to crush the human spirit.





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Leading Family Trends That Should Concern Everyone / Part 2




By: Daily Citizen Staff




This is a special three-part series on six leading family trends that every friend of the family should be mindful of. We give a brief explanation of the importance of each for the family and the future.
1. Family Relativism


“Love is Love” and “Love Makes a Family” are the argument-ending mantras of our age when it comes to family formation. Under the new orthodoxy, no one is allowed to make a judgement about another’s personal sexual or relational choice because the Christian ideal of love has been co-opted in service to family relativism and redefinition. This concept has been driven deep into the psyche of our young people, making it very difficult, if not impossible, for Christians to advocate for God’s ideal of sexuality and family. In fact, those who do so are now the new Worst. Person. Ever. The sappy sentimentality of “love is love” is winning the day in the very vineyard Focus on the Family labors in. What compounds this is that it is an inherently irrational proposition, the logical fallacy of a tautology. It actually says nothing, literally, but wins the day in this increasingly sentimental culture of simplistic thinking.

2. Weaponizing Basic Parental Rights and Authority

Parental rights and authority have been under increasingly attack of late. Last year the FBI issued “threat tags” for dozens of concerned parents who spoke up at local school board meetings in defense of their children and what they were being indoctrinated with.





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Charges Dropped — For Now — For Praying Outside UK Abortion Clinic



By: Jeff Johnston





Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was searched, arrested by three officers and taken to a police station in Birmingham, England in December 2022. A video of the event went viral and was reported in news outlets around the world.
Vaughan-Spruce is the leader of the pro-life group 40 Days for Life Birmingham, an international organization dedicated to ending abortion. She was standing and silently praying outside an abortion clinic — while the clinic was closed.

A police officer came and questioned her, and she was charged with violating the city’s Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) and the nationwide Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act of 2014.

The first regulation creates a buffer zone that Christian Concern, a legal aid group, says “censors free speech and makes it illegal to peacefully pray outside of an abortion clinic in the city.”

The second law was designed to tackle “irresponsible dog ownership and the use of illegal firearms by gangs and organised criminal groups” and to strengthen “the protection afforded to the victims of forced marriage and those at risk of sexual harm.”

That’s a far cry from praying outside an abortion clinic.
Cities across the UK have implemented PSPOs to stifle the rights of pro-life people, and the British Parliament has considered legislation creating buffer zones around abortion clinics throughout the country.






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