The Bridgehead with Jonathon Van Maren
Analyzing the post-Christian world (and where we go from here)
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Assisted suicide has been defeated in the UK (opens the original)
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Hello all,Very good news from the UK. The assisted suicide bill has been defeated in Westminister. Euthanasia bills have now been defeated in Slovenia, Scotland, Wales, and England. Read: “Britain just proved that assisted suicide is not inevitable.”<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xbbn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%
The World that Ended: 9/11, 25 Years Later (opens the original)
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Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Danny Lewin kissed his wife Anne and their two sons, 5-year-old Eitan and 8-year-old Itamar and headed to Boston’s Logan Airport for a business meeting in Los Angeles. On board American Airlines Flight 11 were 81 passengers, two pilots, and nine crewmembers. It never reached LA. At 8:46, the plane slammed into the side of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board—except for Danny Lewin. He was already dead.The truth about the
Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen blocked from entering UK for quoting Bible on marriage (opens the original)
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Greetings everyone,A few new columns—and the podcast is back after the summer recess.A Christian Finnish parliamentarian has been officially blocked from entering the UK after her farcical “hate crime” conviction for quoting Scripture in defence of marriage: “Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen blocked from entering UK for quoting Bible on marriage.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" hre
"A prince stands in the way": Liechtenstein royal blocks abortion (opens the original)
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Greetings, all!A few columns for you this weekend. The first is good news from Liechtenstein, a tiny country between Switzerland and Germany that protects children in the womb. Abortion activists are trying to legalize abortion there An excerpt:As abortion activist Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel put it grimly in the Guardian, there is still one insurmountable problem: “A
A huge pro-life victory (opens the original)
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Fantastic news from Malta, the last pro-life haven in the European Union. Abortion activists have been awaiting a court ruling on the case of Andrea Prudente, who was denied an abortion and instead flew to Spain. Prudente sought to overturn Malta’s pro-life laws. Instead, the judge excoriated abortion activists. From my report in First Things:The long-awaited ruling, released this past July 1, dashed those hopes. Judge Miriam Hayman, after examining medical testimony and hearing from experts, co
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