Posts from the ‘La Vida Iglesia’ Category

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  H H S Ruling follow-up: Obama winks

  February 13th, 2012 | Culture gone mad, Current events, Just my humble opinion, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Slider | Grace | 25431 Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fslider-2%2Fh-h-s-ruling-follow-up-obama-winks%2FH+H+S+Ruling+follow-up%3A+Obama+winks2012-02-13+02%3A26%3A46Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2543

  The per­cep­tion is that Obama’s sup­posed com­pro­mise on his ill-received HHS rul­ing amounted to him capit­u­lat­ing to reli­gious oppo­si­tion. But if he gave in, why do I feel so insulted?

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  Piers Morgan debates Penn Jillette on atheism

  August 21st, 2011 | La Vida Iglesia, Videos worth sharing | Grace | 24252 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fla-vida-iglesia%2Fpiers-morgan-debates-penn-jillette-on-atheism%2FPiers+Morgan+debates+Penn+Jillette+on+atheism2011-08-21+01%3A01%3A45Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2425

  Saw this on Mys­t­a­gogy. Appar­ently Penn Jil­lette has writ­ten just what the pub­lic was clam­or­ing for: Another cul­tural man­date for anti-religion. (Hooray! It had been WAY too long since Hitchens and Maher told every­one that civ­i­liza­tion can’t move for­ward if peo­ple keep believ­ing in God.) So Piers Mor­gan had him on his show and talked […]

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  Stealing from those taking communion

  June 16th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 2340No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fstealing-from-those-taking-communion%2FStealing+from+those+taking+communion2011-06-16+18%3A24%3A19Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2340

  Filed under ‘How Low Can You Go?’ this from the ABC Web­page for Hous­ton: Police say there’s a woman steal­ing from purses in the mid­dle of church ser­vices all over the Hous­ton area and some peo­ple may not even real­ize they’ve fallen vic­tim to her. Sheriff’s deputies believe she has tar­geted vic­tims across the city and […]

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  Blessed Pentecost!

  June 15th, 2011 | La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Quotes | Grace | 2336No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fla-vida-iglesia%2Fblessed-pentecost%2FBlessed+Pentecost%212011-06-15+19%3A44%3A14Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2336

  When­ever the Holy Spirit is present, He makes men of gold out of men of clay. ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

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  Could the Protestant Reformers ever have been Orthodox?

  June 9th, 2011 | La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 23289 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fla-vida-iglesia%2Fcould-the-protestant-reformers-ever-have-been-orthodox%2FCould+the+Protestant+Reformers+ever+have+been+Orthodox%3F2011-06-09+22%3A09%3A53Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2328

  I’ve got one more ques­tion about the inter­sec­tion of Ortho­doxy and Protes­tantism before we move along, so I’m hop­ing that some of you who are more knowl­edge­able are still lurk­ing about some­where. Just found myself won­der­ing what would have hap­pened at the very begin­ning of the Protes­tant Ref­or­ma­tion if the Ortho­dox Church hadn’t been under […]

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  What I believed when I was a Protestant

  June 5th, 2011 | La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 23268 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fla-vida-iglesia%2Fwhat-i-believed-when-i-was-a-protestant%2FWhat+I+believed+when+I+was+a+Protestant2011-06-05+19%3A43%3A56Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2326

  Back HERE I attempted a quick take on Protes­tant the­ol­ogy, and got called out (rightly enough) for not doing jus­tice to it. That’s fair, since my days as an adult mem­ber of a Protes­tant church were brief (though we went to a smat­ter­ing of dif­fer­ent Protes­tant churches grow­ing up), and I was a lazy and unconcerned […]

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  New Rapture date … and a Protestant problem

  May 24th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 23154 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Fnew-rapture-date-and-a-protestant-problem%2FNew+Rapture+date+...+and+a+Protestant+problem2011-05-24+21%3A10%3A56Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2315

  Well, shucks. The Rap­ture didn’t hap­pen last Sat­ur­day. As I told Word­Mama, I’m kind of relieved to hear it, actu­ally. What if the Rap­ture DID hap­pen, and you’re one of the Left­Be­hinds? You’d get all sweaty like the guys in the Chick tracts. And in case you hadn’t heard, Harold Camp­ing took another look at […]

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  Save the date: Rapture will come Saturday

  May 16th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Politics and Current Events, The looming crisis, Uncategorized | Grace | 23056 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Funcategorized%2Fsave-the-date-rapture-will-come-saturday%2FSave+the+date%3A+Rapture+will+come+Saturday2011-05-16+19%3A31%3A46Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2305

  Accord­ing to 89-year-old evan­gel­i­cal Harold Camp­ing, all the faith­ful will be Rap­tured at 6pm on Sat­ur­day, May 21. Seems like news you could use, if only to make the appro­pri­ate deci­sions re: dessert & alco­hol con­sump­tion on Fri­day.  Camp­ing has used “com­plex math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­las” to arrive at that date — they’re the same for­mu­las that […]

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  Happy 63rd birthday, Israel

  May 14th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 2303No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fhappy-63rd-birthday-israel%2FHappy+63rd+birthday%2C+Israel2011-05-14+22%3A35%3A59Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2303

  Today, May 14, is the 63rd anniver­sary of the “rebirth” of Israel. After all the thou­sands of years since the nation was first founded, it is still a rev­o­lu­tion­ary place. Men­tion­ing the word “Israel” is enough to get you into debates in some cir­cles and to hear his­toric (some­times ancient) hero­ics or mis­deeds invoked as […]

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  “Cross & Switchblade” author crosses over

  April 28th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 22546 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fcross-switchblade-author-crosses-over%2F%22Cross+%26+Switchblade%22+author+crosses+over2011-04-28+02%3A25%3A37Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2254

  Well, I’ll be darned. Just read on RightWire that Pas­tor David Wilk­er­son (“The Cross and the Switch­blade”) died in a car crash. He was 79, so it’s not like he didn’t have a full life, but that still seems like a loss. I know he got a lit­tle nutty some­times, but I’ve never for­got­ten that […]

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