Faith
Doritos pulls offensive ad
By Tom Quiner Good news. Thanks to an outcry from America’s faithful, Doritos is withdrawing their “Feed the Flock” ad from the Super Bowl. Quiner’s Diner wrote about it in its previous post. The conservative blogosphere needs to be ever-vigilant in keeping attacks on religious faith at bay. The mainstream media is pretty comfortable with…
Read MoreWill the Super Bowl allow Christ to be desecrated?
By Tom Quiner “I speak for many sports fans who find it a great shame that our national unity over football could become yet another day where we are divided over politics and the culture wars.” I have paraphrased ABC’s news anchor Dan Harris in his criticism of Focus on the Family’s Tim Tebow Super…
Read MoreNo Country for Christians
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcyLpTzsktA&feature=player_embedded] My new year was immediately jarred this morning with this report from CBS News: “At least 21 people are dead and nearly 80 wounded after a bomb exploded outside a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, early Saturday. Officials believe a suicide bomber attacked as worshippers were leaving a New Year’s…
Read MoreThe Summer of Hope
By Tom Quiner [I was interviewed this morning on KWKY AM radio station about the new musical I am writing and producing, “The Pope of the People.” We begin rehearsals next week. Below is an excerpt from another interview on the subject. In addition, I am re-running the piece I wrote for the Des Moines…
Read MoreLiberals mock C.S. Lewis
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxfb1L-hMxU] My family can hardly wait to see the new Chronicles of Narnia movie, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” This is the third installment in the classic series penned by the late C.S. Lewis. We are waiting for our married daughter to fly in so we can all see it together…
Read MoreAn interview with the composer of The Pope of the People
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXfPcO1kFM&feature] I consider the late Pope John Paul II to be one of the most important persons of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I have written a musical, The Pope of the People, on the dramatic first ten years of his papacy. I talk a little about the piece in the interview…
Read MoreJesus, remember me …
By Tom Maly [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Lwbtni4Ag] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcAqBHJe6z8] Throughout scripture, Jesus often acted differently from the expectations of His day and was not shy about challenging those who acted hypocritically as they sought to practice their faith. As an example, talking to any woman, much less a Samaritan woman, as Jesus did at the well, was scandalous. He also touched and…
Read MoreWhy God allows war
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B81kW814qA] On this Veteran’s Day, I pay tribute to all the men and women who have served this nation in the armed forces. Thousands and thousands have given their lives in the name of freedom. We thank-you for your service to America. A letter writer in the Des Moines Register gave voice…
Read MoreThe rage against God
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5B1U2Y7KRw&feature=player_embedded#!] At the age of 15, Peter Hitchens burned his Bible and denied God’s existence. At the age of 58, his older brother, Christopher, wrote a best-selling book, “God is Not Great.” If you didn’t guess, Christopher, too, is an atheist. However, something happened to younger brother, Peter, along the way. He…
Read MoreIn praise of Dr. King and Mother Teresa
By Tom Quiner August 26th was a big day. That was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. August 28th was another big day. That was the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s epoch “I Have a Dream” speech. Mother Teresa didn’t know how to deliver a speech very well. She’d…
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