Archive for June, 2010
U.S. court grants asylum to ‘Son of Hamas’, Mosab Hassan Yousef
Thank God… The son of a Hamas strongman, who had provided Israel’s security establishment with valuable inside information for almost a decade, will not be deported from the United States, a California court ruled on Wednesday. Read the rest here: U.S. court grants asylum to ‘Son of Hamas’ – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.
In: Religion and Politics · Tagged with: Mosab Hassan Yousef
June’s Monthly Giveaways – Final hours
Don’t forget, it is the final hours of the monthly giveaway: And God Said – Autographed Copy (85 comments and 1 purchase already.) NLT Life Application Study Bible – Tu-Tone (141 comments!!!!!) St. Paul vs. St. Peter, Michael Goulder (75 comments) Remember, 1 comment = 1 entry. You can ENTER AS MANY TIMES AS YOU […]
In: Other Posts · Tagged with: giveaways
Is the PCUSA about to gain Common Sense on the Middle East?
I realize that this is a touchy issue for many. Those on the right of the issue see everything through the lens of Zionism, which is, in my opinion, unbiblical. However, those of us on the left cannot forget the matters of religion which are at play here. Recently, the Methodist Church in Britain has […]
In: Religion and Politics · Tagged with: israel, Palestinians, Presbyterian Church (USA)
Watching Trueblood
This a dual post with Rodney, seeing as we share the same end-view of such things, although our journey may be different. Rodney is correct in his assessment of the cultural context of the trend of Vampires, and while his commentator notes that Edward of Twilight fame, is a virtuous individual, that is due more […]
In: Debate/Discussion · Tagged with: ethics, trueblood, twilight
The Substance of John Wesley’s Trinity
To be fair, this is not the whole of John Wesley’s view on the trinity, but I will only examine the 55th sermon in which Wesley comes close to what I have seen expressed in modern-day Methodist communions. (You can find the 55th Sermon here.) Wesley begins by discussing the ‘absurd’ opinions of both the […]
In: Godhead · Tagged with: John Wesley, trinity
What? You mean we are more than our physical nature?
Yup, at least according to new experiments by Dr. Robert Lanza, But a series of new experiments suggest this may be all wrong, and that part of us exists outside of the physical world. The implications of these experiments have been downplayed because, until recently, quantum behavior was limited to the microscopic world. However, this […]
In: Religious News, Science · Tagged with: Robert Lanza
A Solution to Heresy? Orthopraxy
The second coolest Joel in the blogosphere (no, Osteen doesn’t count. Ever.) has a great series of posts dealing with heresy and the solutions to heresy, although some may contend that the idea of absolute orthodoxy is an imperial form of religious control and those any solution is only an opiate. In one solution to […]
In: Doctrine · Tagged with: orthopraxy
