One person wrote: 3. the simplest answer to the extinction of many dinosaurs is the worldwide flood in the time of Noah. Chris has posted that in the Pacific that is described as a Tsumi wave (sorry, I can’t visualise the word just now) – and in time that could have become the given event […]
[Note: publication of this article does not mean I endorse it! Rowland]. The lord’s profits January 30 2003 A sexy young Christian, a walkie-talkie clipped to her hipsters, greets us on our walk from the car park. “Hiya, howya doin’?” she says, with a flick of her mane and a smile. “Welcome to God’s house […]
[From a friend]: The article below is from the New York Times and the writer is from a right wing think tank in the US. I think the head line is misleading. The other thing forgotten is that following Jesus is a life style – a life style which combines justice, righteousness and worship – […]
FW: If You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands!To be sung to “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!” If You’re Happy And You Know It Bomb Iraq by John Robbins If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq. If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq. If the terrorists are […]
Michael Novak Copyright (c) 2002 First Things 127 (November 2002): 17-18. Beginning in the thirteenth century, the three monotheistic religions parted ways, with the Jewish and Christian world going in one direction and the Islamic world going in another. We are still coming to terms with that split. But the three faiths still hold more […]
Atlantic Unbound | June 18, 2003 Interviews The Hard Edge of American Values Robert D. Kaplan on how the United States projects power around the world-and why it must ….. I n “Supremacy by Stealth,” his cover story for the July/August Atlantic, Robert D. Kaplan states simply that we have gotten ourselves into the business […]
___ Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. ___ God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. ___ I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. (Mahatma Gandhi) ___ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, […]
[Note: I have serious reservations about some of this, and present it here in the interests of informed thinking/discussion. Rowland]. Julian Rush is a Methodist minister serving today as the Director of the Colorado AIDS Project in Denver. Recently, he shared with me this unforgettable story. A young gay man came to seek his counsel. […]
George Weigel Copyright (c) 2002 First Things 128 (December 2002): xx-xx. In Book Three of Tolstoy’s epic, War and Peace, the hero, Pierre Bezukhov, arrives at the battlefield of Borodino to find that the fog of war has descended, obscuring everything he had expected to be clear. There is no order, there are no familiar […]
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The anniversary of 9/11 came in the midst of the growing debate about whether the U.S. should launch a unilateral, preemptive strike against Iraq. This week, Kofi Annan of the UN said there should be no such attack without a UN Security Council okay. And more religious voices agreed, among them 48 […]