Current Events | This Side Of Glory - Part 2

Posts from the ‘Current events’ Category

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 Comments2011-05-16+19%3A31%3A46Grace
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 CommentsHappy+63rd+birthday%2C+Israel2011-05-14+22%3A35%3A59Grace
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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Mourning one who left intelligence behind
May 2nd, 2011 | Current events, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 22703 Comments2011-05-02+17%3A02%3A03Grace
If you’ve been exulting over the news that Osama binLaden was killed, welcome to the club. If you’ve then felt a twinge over exulting over the death of any human, join the club. Though he orchestrated the death of thousands and wanted to kill tens of thousands more, some of the expressions of celebration at […]
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“Cross & Switchblade” author crosses over
April 28th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 22546 Comments2011-04-28+02%3A25%3A37Grace
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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White House on Easter: The silence was deafening
April 26th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia, Political circus | Grace | 2244No Comments2011-04-26+05%3A12%3A31Grace
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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Christians targeted in Nigeria
April 26th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 2242No CommentsChristians+targeted+in+Nigeria2011-04-26+04%3A48%3A55Grace
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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Lessons from Exodus about Egypt
February 13th, 2011 | Current events, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 16553 CommentsLessons+from+Exodus+about+Egypt2011-02-13+20%3A39%3A31Grace
Why didn’t I think of that? Bruce Feiler, the author of “Walking Through the Bible”** found “6 Lessons from the Bible for Egypt Today.” Those include: The people rarely succeed on the first try The leader has henchmen The people have powers, too and this one that I liked: 4. The leader will harden his heart. But still pharaoh resists. […]
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Astrology’s Old Calendar/New Calendar debate
January 15th, 2011 | Culture gone mad, Current events, Pop goes the culture | Grace | 16468 Comments2011-01-15+20%3A47%3A09Grace
If you don’t follow matters relating to astrology, you might have missed this big storm brewing amongst those airy, herbal-tea-drinking folk. But it’s actually kind of an interesting collision of their beliefs and a little hard science. And it might just give them the kind of schism that we Orthodox know all too much about […]
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Parents rights and Christianity
September 8th, 2009 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 138711 CommentsParents+rights+and+Christianity2009-09-08+18%3A19%3A44Grace
I understand the state’s insistence that Christianity not be given preference. But that doesn’t help me make my way smoothly through these two cases, documented in a Wall St. Journal piece entitled “Christian Girls, Interrupted”: Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents. And two state courts smack in the middle of it. One of these […]
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Pirates and tsars
April 9th, 2009 | Current events, Political circus | Grace | 12861 CommentPirates+and+tsars2009-04-09+21%3A18%3A13Grace
As of 12:47, the situation on the Somali pirates was that(*) they still have the American captain hostage and that “other pirate-held ships were being moved towards the area.” As of 10:47, the president still didn’t want to even comment about the situation. This, after the White House’s official word, hours after the hijacking yesterday, that […]
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