Have you heard about the newest document to rock the Christian world?
There have been lost scrolls and the Dead Sea Scrolls and all kinds of scrolls found, but twenty some years ago they discovered an ancient document that spent a decade or so being tossed around dealer to dealer until the right people got a hold of it and translated the crumbling pages. On the very last line, they found the phrase that now is being echoed in disbelief by Christians around the world: Read More »
In every society, infanticide has been condemned as a foul and terrible practice.
Except America:
Land of free choice, home of aborted babies.
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Roe vs. Wade; surely one of the more famous cases ever tried in America. That decision has affected millions of people--including unborn babies.
Recently I've found myself arguing about abortion with people who think it's okay "sometimes", or acceptable all the time, or who haven't made up their minds one way or another yet. Those conversations prompted me to write this. Read More »
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
This is the beginning of one of the most famous creation stories of all time, found in the Christian Bible. This story from Genesis goes on to say that God created man out of clay, breathing the breath of life into him, and, taking one of his ribs, made woman, thus beginning the human race. But while many people in America—indeed, in the western world—believe in this story and the gospels that follow, it is by no means the only creation story out there… or even the oldest. Read More »
“The world,
It has been with us from the dawn of human kind. It has followed us, grown with us, strengthened us, weakened us. It is unique to every individual, yet universally the same. Each of us has it, and many of us use its knowledge, but few of us know the name of this spectacular phenomenon. What can be so many things at once? What can be so anomalous but so common to all? It can’t be seen or felt or tasted, and yet it’s something every human being has. It’s something that every person has in common. Read More »
Recently in my American history class we have been discussing World War II and the Holocaust. As part of our studies, we watched The Pianist.
Senseless violence has always sickened me, but what really turned my stomach was the reaction of my classmates to the atrocities depicted in the film. “Did you see that? They just threw the guy in the wheelchair out the window! Awesome!”; “Shot right in the head! That’s great!”; “Look at how it blew up! That’s so cool!”; and so forth. Read More »
