Sunday September 7, 2008 posted by Steve Waldman Those on the left, or merely those who aren’t evangelical Christians, are struggling to make sense of the religious life of Sarah Palin. To many, she seems a frightening harbinger of a fundamentalist takeover. Saturday’s New York Times piece about Palin’s deep faith and Bible-focused church will […]
* CHRISTIANS FLEE AS VIOLENCE ESCALATES IN INDIA * CHRISTIAN GIRL MARTYRED IN SAUDI ARABIA * HOMEOWNER OFFERS BURGLAR BREAKFAST * IRANIAN HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT EXPERIENCING SPECTACULAR GROWTH * STARTLING BREAKTHROUGH IN REPROGRAMMING OF ADULT STEM CELLS * BAHAMIAN CHRISTIAN LEADERS PRAY AND WORK TO REDUCE VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS ———————————————– CHRISTIANS FLEE AS VIOLENCE ESCALATES […]
The Seniors Breakfast Special We went to breakfast at a restaurant where the ‘seniors’ special’ was two eggs, bacon, hash browns & toast for $1.99. ‘Sounds good,’ my wife said. ‘But I don’t want the eggs.’ ‘Then, I’ll have to charge you two dollars & forty-nine cents because you’re ordering a la carte,’ the waitress […]
While the president is empowering and appeasing Islamists for personal political gain, the new Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court is courageously striking out against unconstitutional Sharia bylaws. The battle for Indonesia is heating up and the 2009 elections could prove decisive. THE PRESIDENT To win, exercise and maintain power, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is […]
A Change We Can Only Hope For Harry T. Cook 9/05/08 He said it himself: “This election has never been about me. It’s about you.” So said the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in his acceptance speech last week. Sen. Barack Obama may not have intended that wildly applauded line to be […]
From The Times September 5, 2008 Sir Cliff Richard reveals details of his ‘close friendship’ with former priest Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent His hits may no longer fill the airwaves and prime ministers may no longer flock to his villa in Barbados, but Sir Cliff Richard proved yesterday that he still has the capacity to […]
Harry T. Cook 9/07/08 Ezekiel 33: 1-11 The words we hear today from a great remove of more than 2,500 years are credited to a sixth century B.C.E. public intellectual known as Ezekiel who may have been one of those exiled from Judah to Babylon near the beginning of that century — or at least […]
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 4 September 2008 ABKHAZIA: “OF COURSE” AUTHORITIES WON’T DEFEND GEORGIAN MONKS AND NUNS http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1183 Two monasteries of Georgian Orthodox monks and nuns […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2653266/Preachers-of-separatism-at- work-inside-Britains-mosques.html Britain’s leading Muslim bodies say they are fighting extremism. In one of our most respected mosques, Sara Hassan came face to face with hardline female preachers of separatism. Here, she reports on the shocking results of her investigation Sarah Hassan went undercover at the Regent’s Park Mosque where she In a large balcony […]
William Barclay: “The New Testament lays down no kind of curriculum of training for the child; the New Testament knows nothing about religious education and nothing about schools; for the New Testament is certain that the only training which really matters is given within the home, and that there are no teachers so effective for […]