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Mark Dankof for the Lutheran Ministerium and Synod–USA: The Chosen People of God: Who Are They?
Pastor Mark Dankof on the Chosen People of God. Who are They? I Peter 2: 9-10 is the Rosetta Stone. [This transcript represents a greatly abbreviated version of the sermon delivered by Mark Dankof in Chetek, Wisconsin on June 23rd, 2013 at the closing worship service in Christ Lutheran Church Continue reading
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"is a right, the sense of which is too deeply seated in the human soul to be suppressed"
Art. VI.—PAUL ON POLITICS. AN EXPOSITION OF ROMANS XIII, 1-7. An honest pastor, having the Bible for his text-book, and preaching from that text-book statedly year after year to the people of his charge, finds it quite impossible to avoid all political topics and questions. His duty requires … Continue reading
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lost book
About a family, two daughters, that move to Iran (or somewhere implied to be strict and oppressive) at the behest of the father. I think he intends for it to be a permanent move but tells his family it’s only for a year. First… Continue reading
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Adam Lee spin-doctors abolition
What is the relationship between Christianity, slavery, and abolition? In The Truth Behind the New Atheism, and elsewhere, I have argued that Christianity implicitly, if not always explicitly, undermines human bondage. I have also suggested that Christian teachings were the main motivational force b … Continue reading
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War on Syria
In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: ‘’ I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I … Continue reading
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Is Keynesian economics actually Biblical?
I haven’t studied much economic theory, but of late I’ve come to appreciate the writings of Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times and an economics professor at Princeton University. Krugman has identified himself as a disciple of John Maynard Keynes, the 19 Continue reading
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Dave Pack’s Eighteenth "Special Announcement"
Because Banned by HWA has devoted a lot of attention to these “special announcements” Dave Pack has been sending every Friday I decided to read this latest one, the eighteenth one, and see what he had to say. Here is … Continue reading
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Darwin’s Catholic Great-Great-Great Granddaughter
Quite a good article in the Catholic Herald today by a direct descendant of Charles Darwin (who first proposed the theory of evolution). His great-great-great granddaughter explains why she is Catholic. ‘Are you related to the economist?” People sometimes ask when Continue reading
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Hope and Memory (Job 14.1–14): a sermon
There’s a scene in Terrence Malick’s film Thin Red Line where a young soldier gives voice to a series of imponderable and ancient questions about meaning, about the ‘thin red line’ between life and suffering and death. In what is essentially a prayer, he asks: This great evil. … Continue reading
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Summerset Abbey
Summerset Abbey TJ Brown Simon and Schuster I don’t normally read secular adult fiction, but I had seen this book on the internet, and when it caught my eye on the bookshelf of our library, I subjected it to my “judge of appropriateness”… Continue reading
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A New Beginning – Belem do Pará
Looking out of the plane window I saw a mass of green jungle, brown rivers and grey skies. Then Belem came in sight, a peninsular of high-rise buildings springing up unnaturally from the fertile ground. The next phase of my journey was enshrouded in… Continue reading
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Pope Francis writes to David Cameron on G8
A few weeks ago David Cameron wrote to Pope Francis about the G8 leaders’ summit in Lough Erne, setting out his agenda for the global economy. He promised to maintain ring-fencing of the Overseas Aid budget (0.7% of GNI) and work toward ‘the common… Continue reading
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Plumper Cove , Keats Island, BC – journallingI
It’s lovely here, anchored, sitting below in the cabin of my sailboat drinking coffee and blogging. It was hot on deck when I went topsides and threw the dinghy overboard for a later row ashore with my first mate, Gilbert, the cockapoo. I’m grateful today. Grateful that the sun … Continue reading
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Jude (Non-Exhaustive)
Barcelona-trekearth Barcelona-trekearth Book of Jude commenter David F. Payne explains that there is a traditional view, widely held, that Jude was the brother of James, both sons of Mary and Joseph, therefore half-brother of Jesus Christ. Payne (1986: 1590). Many scholars, reason the text was writt … Continue reading
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Man of 60/40
So let’s make this quick and painless. I wasn’t that big of a fan of Man of Steel. In fact, I am about 60/40 in dislike with the film. I saw it Friday and have been mulling it over to see if my … Continue reading
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