The Divine Conspiracy Blog

Last year The Divine Conspiracy had 18,384 page views, and for 2009 TDC should finish with over 100,000 page views. That’s tremendous growth for one year, and I want to thank all who frequently visit the blog and main website. I spend a lot of hours finding the best material available that fits the various topics of interest, and I must admit the growth this website has seen over the past year encourages me greatly.

For the next month you can download for free the latest book by Gary Thomas, Pure Pleasure: Why Do Christians Feel So Bad About Feeling Good?

USA Today has a story on honor killings in the United States.

Muslim immigrant men have been accused of six “honor killings” in the United States in the past two years, prompting concerns that the Muslim community and police need to do more to stop such crimes.

“There is broad support and acceptance of this idea in Islam, and we’re going to see it more and more in the United States,” says Robert Spencer, who has trained FBI and military authorities on Islam and founded Jihad Watch, which monitors radical Islam.

The New York Times has revealed their list of the 100 most notable books of 2009.

The more the U.S. aligns itself with the U.N. and/or Europe, the more this country departs from all that made it great.

Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion “as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity,” according to a paper written two years ago to influence the future strategy of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world’s would-be environmental watchdog.

The purpose of the paper, put together after an unpublicized day-long session in Switzerland by some of the world’s top environmental bureaucrats: to argue for a new and unprecedented effort to move environmental concerns to “the center of political and economic decision-making” around the world — and perhaps not coincidentally, expand the influence and reach of UNEP at the tables of world power, as a rule-maker and potential supervisor of the New Environmental Order.

More here.

Joe Carter, who briefly worked for the Huckabee campaign, has some interesting thoughts on the murder of four policeman in Washington State.

A negative review of Going Rogue by John Mark Reynolds.

Killing the Buddha reviews Counterfeit Gods by Timothy Keller.

Politico on 7 stories Obama doesn’t want told.

The New York Review of Books reviews two books on Islam, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Christopher Caldwell, and What I Believe by Tariq Ramadan.