New Oxford Notes: April 2015
Who Will Call It Genocide?
Western journalists, often too busy reporting on so-called Islamophobia in our own backyard, have largely neglected the systematic extermination of Christians in biblical lands.
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My Favorite Marcion
An columnist was recently spreading a second-century heresy developed by Marcion, who taught that the God of the New Testament is wholly different from the God of the Old Testament.
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