There are more Biblical sites in Iraq than in any other nation other than Israel: Eden (maybe), the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, Abraham’s home town of Ur, the city that Jonah evangelized Ninevah, Babylon, the place of the Hebrews’ exile. And there have been Christians
Tourism is booming in Switzerland, but many visitors aren’t coming back home. They are suicide tourists, going to the land of legalized euthanasia to end their lives. And increasingly, they get doctors to finish them off even though they don’t have fatal diseases. (more…)
The United States has been bombing ISIL positions in Iraq, but yesterday we took the fight to Syria. Arab allies joined in the bombing. ISIL began as a Sunnni rebel group trying to overthrow the Shi’ite dictator in Syria, Bashar al-Assad. American planes also attacked
Sunday was the commemoration of St. Matthew. In the Gospel lesson, Matthew tells about how Jesus called him, tax collector though he was, and how the Pharisees thought about him: 9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the
In response to the near secession of Scotland from the United Kingdom, the British government is promising to decentralize, giving more power to regional and local governments. (Not just Scotland but Wales and Northern Ireland already have their own parliaments. England hasn’t, being content to
You can set up a passcode to protect the information on your cell phone. But the manufacturers can still unlock that information if given a court order, giving police and other government agencies access to people’s private data. But Apple has announced that the new
According to a new biography of Billy Graham–America’s Pastor by Grant Wacker (Harvard University Press)–the Southern Baptist evangelist has said that if he were starting all over again he would be “an evangelical Anglican” because he appreciates the “spiritual beauty in Anglican order.” (more…)
In China, pretty much everyone buys pretty much everything from the online site Alibaba. Last week, the company came to the United States, getting listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where it raised over $21 billion, becoming the second-biggest IPO in history. Alibaba has
Congress signed off on President Obama’s plan for an air war against the Islamic State, both in Iraq and in Syria. The war authorization was attached to a budget bill, and it passed both the House and the Senate on a bi-partisan vote with virtually
One of the tenets of the “Revangelical” movement, which seeks to “renew, reform, and rethink” evangelicalism, is that churches today need to be “theologically diverse.” I wonder what that means and if it’s possible. And, according to both my experience and my convictions, I
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