More and more Christians are discovering, or re-discovering, the doctrine of vocation, and the richness of that teaching means that vocation can illuminate countless dimensions of life. Now the noted Christian philosopher John Stackhouse has written a book entitled Need to Know: Vocation as the
That would be Ebola, according to the director of the World Health Organization, a plague that is raging out of control, with projections that it will kill 1.4 million people by January. Right now, the disease is confined to Africa, but surely it won’t stay
The pattern for enlisting in the military is to sign up in your 20’s, then, if you want to make a career of it, keep rising in the ranks until you retire after 20 or 30 years. The military only hires people, as it were,
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…)
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