Category: christianity

Vicar Warns Churches Have ‘Lost Track of Being Doctors of the Soul’

Mainstream Christian churches have “lost track of being doctors of the soul” just when society needs it most, a vicar has warned. Churches are offering a “bland, undemanding version of Christianity that is decaf” and gives nothing but “a series of woke tropes,” said Reverend Daniel French, vicar of the seaside town of Salcombe, south…


PREMIERING June 29, 3 PM ET (8 PM UK): Daniel French: ‘Spiritually Something in Me Snapped When We Were Commanded to Leave Our Churches in Lockdown’ | British Thought Leaders

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Reverend Daniel French, vicar of the British seaside town of Salcombe and co-host of the popular Irreverend podcast. Daniel talks about how the lockdowns affected him and his work as a faith leader when churches were forced to close. He also talks about some of the challenges facing Christianity…


Rising Number of Attacks on US Churches in 2023 on Pace to Set Record: Report

Attacks on American churchgoers in 2023 are on pace to make it the worst in six years, according to a Washington non-profit group. “Criminal acts against churches have been steadily on the rise for the past several years, and the first quarter of 2023 has continued the upward trend,” the Family Research Council reported on…


In the State, We Trust

Commentary Easter Sunday is the traditional day for Christians to celebrate Jesus of Nazareth’s rising from the dead. However, there is no exaggeration in stating that Christianity is in existential decline in Australia, a country that is about to become a majority atheist nation. In Australia, according to a 2021 Australian community survey run by…


Mont-Saint-Michel: Normandy’s Magnificent Island Abbey

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mudflat in the vast Bay of Mont St-Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for a dramatic abbey reaching to heaven from a rock surrounded by a vast and muddy solitude. Since the sixth century,…


‘Blame the Christians, Now!’: Law Enforcement Channel Emperor Nero

Commentary In July of 64AD, a great fire swept through the city of Rome. It broke out in the merchant shops (probably a bakery) near the Circus Maximus, and raged for more than a week. The inhabitants of the city at the time lived mostly in wooden houses and shacks, easy prey for fire. Once…


The Return of Nero’s ‘Blame the Christians!’ Mentality

Commentary In July of 64AD, a great fire swept through the city of Rome. It broke out in the merchant shops (probably a bakery) near the Circus Maximus and raged for more than a week. The inhabitants of the city at the time lived mostly in wooden houses and shacks, easy prey for fire. Once…


A Pandemic Legacy of Fear and Control

“Today’s transhumanist project of trying to meld the human and the technological, making people bigger, stronger, and smarter through gene editing, cybernetics, and nanotechnology, is just a microwaved version of a very old ideology,” says Dr. Aaron Kheriaty. “It’s a new form of the ancient Gnostic attitude toward the human being.” In a recent episode…


A New Generation of Catholics Discovers Latin Mass 60 Years After Vatican II

Commentary Growing up in a rural enclave in western Pennsylvania, Gina McNulty regularly attended Catholic Mass with her family each Sunday. But something always felt missing about the experience, McNulty said—something she could not put her finger on until a few years ago when she and her husband, Steven, began attending a traditional Latin Mass…


Christmas Has Strayed From Its True Spirit

Commentary Traditionally, Christmas Day commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. The celebrations originated in pagan and Roman times when the Romans celebrated the birth of Mithra, their sun god, on Dec. 25. As no one knew the birth date of Jesus Christ, Mithra’s birthday was adopted as the day on which Christ’s birth would be…