Posts from the ‘La Vida Iglesia’ Category
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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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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Via Mediaite: I think I may have just dislocated my shoulder from cringing too hard. In what is one of the most awkward White House press briefings I’ve yet seen, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney somehow manages to say both not enough and entirely too much. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked why […]
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Via Christian Post More than 60 churches were burned and thousands of Christian-owned homes destroyed in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north after the recent election of incumbent Christian president Goodluck Jonathan, according to the Christian persecution watchdog group Open Doors. Riots broke out Monday after the preliminary results of Saturday’s vote were announced. Jonathan, who was sworn in […]
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With all of the aforementioned disclaimers about the quality of my little thoughts here, I have to forge ahead anyway, because a C. S. Lewis essay called “The Decline of Religion” offered a vantage that I wanted to get down in sound-bytes so I can refer back to it in time.
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Christ is Born! Glorify Him! One more Christmas carol in Byzantine chant, this time Tone 1. It’s got some rough spots I should’ve ironed out, but c’mon, I did it before I opened my presents. That’s love. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] And a pertinent thought for the day … Today the Lord is born, the […]
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Well, all RIGHT. I finally got all the packages off to family and put up my odd collection of decorations, including my Tea tree (left) and Greg’s Tommy Bahama tree (below). That means that it’s okay now if the radio stations want to play those dang Christmas songs without stopping. Leave it to the world […]
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So the Muslims want to build a mosque at Ground Zero, less than a decade after other Muslims — whose actions they have said don’t represent the norm — murdered over 3,000 of us. And nothing will do but for them to be able to build it at that exact location. I wonder, do you […]
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A friend sent me one of those serial emails that get bounced around, and though the story intrigued me, I dismissed it as being an urban legend. But a quick trip to Snopes confirmed that it really happened: Yep, on July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin took a moment before setting foot on the moon to […]
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Via the Orthodox convert list (*), a Gallup poll that studied how much people in different states attend church regularly — HERE. Mississippi was at the top with 63% weekly church-goers; Vermont at the bottom with 23%. Not a lot of surprises there. Just as you might think, southerners went to church the most, except for […]
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