2 days ago by Michael Thompson

I don't usually chase after the hot button issues. My goal is to be thoughtful and not get caught up in the hysteria of what are often unimportant rabbit trails. Once in a while the issues are important, but still not well served by intense emotions. One such issue is unavoidable when reading the pa ...

Perichoretic Life - perichoreticlife.blogspot.com · 2 references

4 days ago by Geoffrey Charles

Continued from part 4... The journey home from Israel was quite eventful. We had some major engine problems, an injured crew member, an emergency stop in the Canary Islands, crew members quitting to fly home to the States, and some problems with the Spanish government, who put our crew on house arre ...

Searching for Truth - geoffreycharles.blogspot.com

4 days ago by Jason Harris

Ministry means working with people. And people are sinners. So those who are ministering to others will at times find themselves knee deep in messy situations. Unfortunately, these situations often involve criminal behaviour which has never been reported to the civil authorities. Probably the most c ...

InFocus - teaminfocus.com.au · 3 references

5 days ago by Geoffrey Charles

Continued from part 3... I arrived back at Friend Ships in the summer of 2006. When I got there, I was expecting to set sail for Israel almost right away. However, it turned out we had a bunch more work to do before we could leave. I was part of the loading crew. I worked in the warehouse making pal ...

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5 days ago by James F. McGrath

Today in my Sunday school class we reached Romans 14, which famously discusses the relationship between the “weak” and the “strong” in the church in Rome. We began by noting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Exploring Our Matrix - patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix · 483 references

6 days ago by GumbyTheCat

Haven't come up with a damn thing to write about so far this year, but thought I'd share this video for those who haven't seen it yet. In it, Bill Maher ridicules the theist charge that "atheism is a religion" with humorous logic. He later rescues Edward Davies, the late father-in-law of poor people ...

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7 days ago by Lesley Hazleton

Last month, Town Hall Seattle ran a program called ‘Three Lives,’ originally touted as eulogies of three public figures — Christopher Hitchens, Kim Jong-Il, and Vaclav Havel — linked by the sole fact that they’d happened to die within four days of each other in December. I was asked to speak about H ...

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7 days ago by Lesley Hazleton

Last month, Town Hall Seattle ran a program called ‘Three Lives,’ originally touted as eulogies of three public figures — Christopher Hitchens, Kim Jong-Il, and Vaclav Havel — linked by the sole fact that they’d happened to die within four days of each other in December. I was asked to speak about H ...

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7 days ago by Michael J Donahue

If the Bible is going to be taken at face value an outline quickly emerges, first there is Creation, then the Fall, the Flood, the call of Abraham, the Exodus of Israel and the giving of the Law, Israel's history, then the coming of Christ and His death and resurrection, then the setting up of the C ...

The Upward Call - michaeljdonahue.blogspot.com · 1 reference

9 days ago by James F. McGrath

Via Dănuţ Mănăstireanu I learned of a blog post by Richard Rohr entitled “Christian Conservatives seldom Conserve the Real Tradition” which seems to me to deserve to be widely circulated,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Exploring Our Matrix - patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix · 483 references