Category: Christianity

Enormous self-regard

Newt, the Jews, and an “Invented” People By David  Remnick, December 11, 2011 … Late last week, as part of a Republican pander-fest for the Jewish vote—what  Jon Stewart aptly called a “tuchus kiss-off”—Newt Gingrich, the  frontrunner in Iowa and South Carolina, turned on the spigot of his pedantry and  called the Palestinians an “invented” …

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Dwindling congregations

PROOFS OF GOD IN A PHOTON By Martin Redfern, Sunday 24 December 1995 … FOR THE first time in 400 years, sensible people are saying some very dangerous things. Theologians are discussing the origins of the physical universe, the beauty of the fundamental laws of physics and the wonder of the complexity of nature. Scientists, …

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According to the dictionary

    [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU Brand new track produced by Red Skull, taken from the highly anticipated album Soundtrack To The Struggle by Lowkey. So, we must ask ourselves, what is the dictionary definition of “terrorism”? The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. But what is “terror”? According to the dictionary I …

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The amiable historical mosquito

Phoenician footprints all over Beirut By Robert Fisk, Saturday 03 December 2011 … I walked down a Phoenician street the other day, built under Persian rule. A bit bumpy and uneven underfoot – like many a street in modern day Iranian and Lebanese cities – but this one happened to be about 2,600 years old. …

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Lovely stories of Bethlehem

The Cross, an Amazing Paradox * By Harry Emerson Fosdick, Living Under Tension, 1941, Harper and Brothers, New York and London, pages 233 – 242. … It is one thing to preach a Christmas sermon about the radiant stories that light up the birth of Jesus; it is another to preach a Palm Sunday sermon …

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Gaining momentum

Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests? By the Rev. Howard Bess, November 26, 2011 … When the Martin Luther King Jr. monument was dedicated recently in Washington DC, I was reminded that the civil rights movement in America was led not by a politician fulfilling campaign promises, nor by a popular evangelist bent on saving …

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God save us from the successful church

How to Shrink Your Church By Tim Suttle, 11/21/11 09:00 AM ET … Pastors and churches spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year attending conferences, buying books, hiring consultants, advertisers and marketers, all to try and accomplish one thing: to increase attendance — to be a bigger church. I’m absolutely convinced this is the …

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