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October 28, 2009
- Shalloween? What we think is shallowJust may be a gallowDon’t fall asleep on a true meaning so deepConsider the Eve of All HallowsHuman discernment unkeenHistoric and modern attrocities unseenYet in naïve merriment still they sayHere comes the “ween”Ten thirty oneMerry and mirthScary and fun. http://bit.ly/1AAQdB www.twitter.com/questfortruth
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September 13, 2009
- I've read a couple of interesting blogs this morning, both of which address the problems of morality in an athiest world, as opposed to a Christian world. The first, titled "Deconstructing the Purpose Driven Life - Chapter 23" is by The Athiest Missionary The athiest missionary poses the question what would Jesus do in two highly charged moral dilemmas: 1) Sophie's choice — choose ...
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August 26, 2009
- The Shack is a book like no other. With almost 8 million copies in print, it has been on the New York Times Best Seller List for 64 consecutive weeks and has been the #1 bestseller on that list for 51 weeks. Film producers have expressed interest and there are websites dedicated to this book. The author's website even has a "Missy Project" for suggestions of how readers can ...
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August 13, 2009
- (The following blog was originally posted at Beliefnet.com, where I debate leading Religious Right attorney, Jay Sekulow.)Jay, I want to get back to the very serious issue of the debate over health care in a few days, but I want to interrupt that flow with a point of personal privilege. You see, I have been attacked by Ann Coulter...again. This one deserves an immediate response. She has now ...
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July 13, 2009
- The terms Christian and Catholic define mutually exclusive groups in the minds of many in the United States. On closer examination, this is an odd distinction. In common parlance, “Christian” is the accepted term for Protestant denominations, especially those with an evangelical bent. Catholics are somehow excluded from being “Christian.” Yet the Catholic faith can trace a direct lineage ...
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July 8, 2009
- 'Drop in when you drop dead' was the tagline at the undertaker’s outlet. I imagined stone cold corpses walk in for a cuppa and a casket. This was on my regular route and it invariably made me smile. I thought about the smiles I saw at the Michael Jackson memorial service. They were not celebrating death, but life. Brought up in a culture where this is unusual and loud weeping is common and ...
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June 30, 2009
- Rich Nichol, the Director of the Rabbinical Ordination Institute at MJTI (mjti.com) says, “For final redemption to occur, the Church and the Jewish people must come together as never before.”Stuart Dauermann, the Senior Scholar at MJTI just released a booklet this year called Christians and Jews Together.Of course, what they are both talking about is the happy realization by Jews that ...
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June 9, 2009
- Commitment is a wonderful thing. Whether you’re talking about marriage, a job, a faith, parenthood, any cause–the willingness to commit openly and faithfully is admirable. Especially if it’s unpopular or out of the norm. I applaud those who continue to speak out against vaccines for their children with autism, those who rally against the war even if they’re called un-American, those ...
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June 4, 2009
- President Obama rides again! This time to Cairo, Egypt. The big question was, would he make it another apology tour? The last trip could have been summed up in Nirvana's words:Everything is my faultI'll take all the blameI'll proceed from shame- Nirvana, All Apologies - 1990The "I", of course, not being Obama, but the United States of America.So, did this happen this time, too?I will ...
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June 4, 2009
- President Barack Obama spelled out what he expects of the Israeli government in his Cairo speech, issuing a challenge that most commentators here believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no way of meeting [I wrote on Global Post today].Obama’s speech, carried live on all three main Israeli television stations, made clear his firm opposition to any sort of building in Israel’s West Bank ...
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