Tal Davis, Author at MarketFaith Ministries

The Last Days of Scientology?

July 12, 2012 | Tal Davis

The ugly public divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes has relit the flames of controversy about the Church of Scientology. It was rumored for years that Cruise’s earlier marriage to Nicole Kidman was also wrecked by his obsession with Scientology. Of course, this is nothing new with that…

The SBC, Racism, and Mormonism

June 25, 2012 | Tal Davis

Last week a resolution was submitted at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) concerning racist statements in Mormon scriptures. The resolution was not presented by the SBC resolutions committee to the convention for vote. I applaud them for that decision. Now please understand I am not…

The Legacy of C.S. Lewis

May 23, 2012 | Tal Davis

On November 22, 1963 a great man died. “Oh yes,” you say. “That was the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.” Yes, that is true; President Kennedy did die on that fateful day. I recall vividly where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news.…

The Mormon Family Factor

May 8, 2012 | Tal Davis

A curious subplot to the coming Presidential election is what I call the Mormon Family Factor. The positive conservative family values of that religion are well documented and are certainly a plus for Mitt Romney’s campaign among conservative Christians. What is not well understood by most people is why the…

The Media’s Double Standard on Religion

March 15, 2012 | Tal Davis

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is an organization with the dubious goal of ridding the public square of all vestiges of religious influence, especially Christianity. Recently that organization bought a full page advertisement in the New York Times that was clearly anti-Christian and particularly anti-Catholic. The ad was headlined…

“It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you!”

February 2, 2012 | Tal Davis

In 1997 Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts starred in a movie titled “Conspiracy Theory”. Gibson played a paranoid cab driver named Jerry who believed in a host of conspiracies and was constantly reading and warning people about them. Then one day he suddenly realized someone was trying to kill him. …

Those Gullible Christians?

January 23, 2012 | Tal Davis

Evangelical Christians are naïve, unintelligent, easily led, irrational, anti-scientific, and intolerant, right? If you read some comments on the secular blogs and articles in the mass media you would sure think so. But does that perception actually reflect reality? Not according a recent poll done by The Baylor Institute for …

God and Man at Yale + 62

January 11, 2012 | Tal Davis

One of my favorite conservative commentators of all time was the late William F. Buckley, Jr. I used to love his weekly interview show called “The Firing Line'” that ran on PBS from 1966 to 1999. He always had great guests from across the political spectrum. Occasionally he would discuss…

What’s Christmas All About?

December 20, 2011 | Tal Davis

In early 1965 the CBS network and Coca-Cola asked Charles Schultz if he would be willing to write a script for an animated Christmas special of the Peanuts comic strip. At that time the Peanuts characters had never before been brought to life in animation, so Schultz excitedly answered, “Yes”. …

WHAT ABOUT PSYCHICS AND ESP?

December 2, 2011 | Tal Davis

A while back I received an email from a man concerned about someone he knows who is a Christian but claims to have the ability to sense the presence of and communicate with dead spirits (a la The Sixth Sense, only on a less dramatic scale). His friend is…

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