A bunch of Adventists went to see Expelled tonight; in front of us, some folks I knew from Catholic young adult ministry–Tito and Andre. There was good attendance at the showing, and it was a young crowd, very friendly to the film makers, as attested by the applause at the end. Ben Stein has a…
Today is Palm Sunday for much of the Christian world today, and it was marked by fisticuffs at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Police were beaten with palm branches when they tried to intervene.
In the Washington Post, Peter Manseau contrasts the first visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 with that of Benedict XVI. He contrasts the 400,000 who crammed into Boston Common for a mass with John Paul with the 46,000 who attended Benedict’s mass. That’s a phony comparison. Those huge crowds were possible because of…
Now that Pope Benedict XVI has concluded his first visit to the United States, we can begin to reflect on the themes he addressed. My reflections are rooted in my own perspective as a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who, nonetheless, spent many years as a member and a lay leader within the Catholic Church. As I…
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