Christmas is an extraordinary gift to the world
Christmas is the most recognized and anticipated day on the planet – encompassing all nationalities, races and languages, and observed across nearly 200 nations. Gathered with friends and family, billions of people decorate with lights, exchange gifts
Court says Anchorage women’s shelter can bar gender confused males
Thanks to a federal court order, the Anchorage Assembly cannot require a faith-based women’s shelter to admit biological males who claim to be female. The order upholds the shelter’s right to prevent men from sleeping in close quarters with women who
Anchorage children’s concert relocates after bishop bars access to cathedral
Hundreds of children from Holy Rosary Academy sang Advent songs before a packed audience at the Loussac Library in Anchorage on Dec. 10. The school traditionally performs its annual Lessons & Carols Advent concert at Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral, but
Unshakable hope in a darkening world
Sunday marked the beginning of the age-old season of Advent. For the next four weeks leading up to Christmas, more than a billion Christians across numerous denominations are recalling that two millennia ago a weary world once longed for a Savior in an age
11.25 > An Attitude of Gratitude
If you watch the news, or listen to it, or read it with any amount of discernment, you will notice if there is one thing missing in the world, above all else, it is gratitude. While we raise the lamp and stand up for conservative principles and the powerful
The ‘RNC Pride Coalition’ is a bankrupt plan – politically and spiritually
In his book, “God and Government,” Chuck Colson says, “the fact that God reigns can be manifest through political means, whenever the citizens of the Kingdom of God bring his light to bear on the institutions of the kingdoms of man.” As ambassadors of
Murkowski breaks with Republicans to confirm radical LGBTQ activist judge
Sen. Lisa Murkowski once again broke with her Republican colleagues, this time to help confirm a radical far-leftist activist to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals is second only to the U.S. Supreme Court with many Supreme Court
Number of Americans who claim no religious ties may be declining
For decades, the percentage of U.S. adults who claimed to have no religious identity was on the rise, and it seemed inevitable that the trend would continue. That may not be the case. Several recent studies now suggest that the so-called “nones” (those
Bishop’s threat to cut ties with traditional Catholic school galvanizes Alaskans
Roughly 50 parents, teachers, students and supporters of Holy Rosary Academy gathered outside of Archbishop Andrew Bellisario’s Anchorage offices on Oct. 25 to pray that their chief spiritual shepherd reconsider his decision to cut ties with the small
Alaska archbishop threatens ‘Catholic’ identity of Anchorage school
The broader cultural war between traditional and progressive branches of Christianity is now playing out between an Alaska archbishop and a small conservative Catholic school in Anchorage. Archbishop Andrew Bellisario, who oversees the Catholic Church across
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