At BeliefNet: Rant about the Holidays, and Finding Peace after the Rant. How did this season of sharing, caring and love for fellow man become a fight to terminology as if they are being attacked or slighted if their faith is not recognized? This goes entirely against any belief system or faith that is celebrating…
A Christmas card for our friends.
Dom Bettinelli started a Facebook group, Tolkien Birthday Toast. January 3, 2008 will be Tolkien’s 116th birthday. At 9:00 p.m. (your local time), you are invited to raise a glass in memory of The Professor. He writes: J.R.R. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on January 3, 1892. To celebrate this event, on this…
I might not be as concerned about Mike Huckabee’s Christmas ad, its “floating cross,” and its blatant pandering to evangelicals if he weren’t also being hosted at a fundraiser by Steven Hotze, who represents the most extreme “Reconstructionist” wing of the Republic party. These are the folks who believe in Dominion theology, or creating a…
Houston is the “Bayou City” — and our bayous are filthy. And they aren’t even talking about the visible stuff that has kept me from putting my canoe in Buffalo Bayou.
Mark Kellner’s article about the QOD Conference has finally appeared in the Adventist Review. He references an Andrews University press release. From October–My comments on the conference.
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